Saint Augustine his enchiridion to Laurence, or, The chiefe and principall heads of all Christian religion a most profitable booke to all those which desire to haue a most compendious briefe of Augustines doctrine, out of Augustine himselfe, when he was old, being repurged, by the old manuscript, of many faults and vnusuall wordes, wherewith it formerly flowed.

TOVCHING GODS. Omnipotencie.

CHAP. 96.

That God is said to be omnipotent, because all thinges that bee, are by his wil or permission, nei∣ther can hee bee crossed by any creature.

NEither ought wee to doubt that God doth well in suffe∣ring of euills whatsoeuer to bee done. For, his permission thereof is not without a iust iudgement. And no doubt but that euerie thing is good which is iust. Al∣though therefore these thinges which be euill in that they are e∣uill, cannot be also good; yet is it good, that there be not onely good, but euill actions also. For, if this were not good, that there should be also euils, the Almigh∣tie, who is good, would not by any meanes suffer the same. To

which Almightie, as it is, no doubt, easie to doe what hee will: so is it as easie for him, not to permitte that which hee will not haue done. Which vn∣lesse wee doe beleeue, it shaketh the verie foundation and begin∣ning of the confession of our faith: whereby wee doe con∣fesse that we do beleeue in God the father almightie. Neither, is he truely called omnipotent for any other cause, but because he can doe whatsoeuer hee will: Neither is the will of the Al∣mightie interrupted by the will of any crea∣ture.