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He doth meete with a double ob∣iection: the one drawne from the words of Christ, the other from the obseruation of nature it selfe.
NOw, when we say, that euils doe spring originally from things that be good, let it not be taken to be repugnant to the saying of Christ, affirming, that a good tree cannot bring forth e∣uill fruits: for, as it is truely said, a Grape cannot be gathered from thornes, because a grape cannot
spring out of them; And so by the selfe same reason, as an euill tree cannot yield good fruits: no more can an euill wil or disposi∣tion, yield good workes. How∣beit, good ground may, as wee see, beare both grapes, and also thornes. In like maner, from the nature of man which is good, may spring both a will that is good, and a will that is badde. Neither hath that will, which is euill and vitious, any other roote originally, but from the good nature of an angell, or of a man. Which thing, Christ himselfe, in that place where he speaketh of a tree and fruits, most plainely sheweth. For, he saith, Either make the tree good, and the fruit thereof good; or make the tree had and the fruit bad. Giuing vs ther∣by a sufficient caueat, or exam∣ple, that euill fruits grow not of a good tree, nor good of an euil: and yet both these trees may grow in that ground, to which ••e directed his speech.