Two bokes of the noble doctor and B. S. Augustine thone entiteled of the predestiuacion [sic] of saintes, thother of perseueraunce vnto thende, whervnto are annexed the determinaciouns of two auncient generall councelles, confermyng the doctrine taught in these bokes by s. Aug. all faythfully translated out of Laten into Englyshe by Iohn Scory the late B. of Chichester, very necessary for al tymes ...

The .iii. Chapter.

* 1.1 THe thyrd peticiō is this, Thy wyl be done in hea¦uen, and in earth, or as is red in many bokes, & is moste vsed of them that praye, as in heauen so also in earth. Whych many vnderstande, as thy holy angels do thy wil, so al∣so we maye do the same. But yon∣der doctor and martyr, would haue the spirite & fleshe to be vnderstand by heauen and earth, and that we praye thys, that bothe these beynge ag••••ed together we may do the wil of God. He perceyued also an other meanyng to be in these wordes a∣greyng to the moste sounde fayth, wherof we haue nowe spoken be∣fore: that is, that the faythful beyng cladde wyth the heauēly man, and therfore not vnworthely called by the name of heauen, myght be vn∣derstande to praye for the infideles whych are yet earthy, bearyng tho∣rough their fyrste byrth the earthy man onely. Wheras he dothe ma∣nyfestly declare, that y^e begynning also of fayth is the gyft of God. For asmuche as the holy churche dothe praye, not onlye for the faythfull,

that fayth maye be encreased, or cō¦tinued in them: but also for infide∣les, that they maye begynne to ha∣ue fayth, wherof they were vtterly destitute, and against the whyche they also bare hatefull hartes. But nowe we do not dispute of the be∣gynnyng of faith, wherof we haue spoken in the former boke plente∣fully, but of that perseuerance whi¦che verelye the saintes that do the wyll of God do also desyre, sayeng in their prayers. Thy wyl be done. For seyng that it is alreadye done in thē, why desyre they that it may be yet done, but only that they may continue in that they haue begon to be? Notwithstandynge it maye here be sayd, that the saintes desyre not, that the wyll of God maye be done in heauen, but that it may be done in earth, as it is in heauen: in earth, that is to saye, that it maye folowe heauen, that is, that man may folowe Angell, or the infidele the faythfull: and in this sence, the saintes desyre, that that may come to passe whych is not yet: not that whych is, should continue. For al¦tho men excelle in neuer so greate

holynes, yet are they not equall to the angels of God: The wyl of god therfore is not yet done in them, as it is in heauen. Yf thys thynge be thus, then not perseuerance, but the begynnyng seameth to be desy∣red in that parte, wherein we praye that of infideles mē may be made faythfull: but in that parte wherin we desyre, that men in doynge the wyll of God, maye be equall to the angels of God, when the saintes (I saye) prays for thys, it is many fest that they pray for perseuerāce: For no man attayneth that perfect blesse, which is in the kyngdome: except he shall continue vnto thend in that holynes, whych he receiued in earthe.

Notes

• * 1.1

  The thyr¦de peticiō