Popery anatomized, or, A learned, pious, and elaborat treatise wherein many of the greatest and weightiest points of controversie, between us and papists, are handled, and the truth of our doctrine clearly proved : and the falshood of their religion and doctrine anatomized, and laid open, and most evidently convicted and confuted by Scripture, fathers, and also by some of their own popes, doctors, cardinals, and of their own writers : in answer to M. Gilbert Brown, priest / by that learned, singularly pious, and eminently faithful servant of Jesus Christ M. John Welsch ...

Master Gilbert Brown.

THirdly, Our doctrine is, that man of his Free-will may resist the will of God, which is contrary to their doctrine, ratified by Act of Parliament in the year 1560. And also against their Psalm book of Geneva. Yet our doctrine is the doctrine of Christ. For Christ said to them of Jerusalem, How oft would I have gathe∣red together thy children, but you would not? Matth. 23.37. And S. Steven. Ye stiff-necked and of uncircumcised hearts and ears, ye alwayes resist the holy Ghost, as your fathers, your selves also, Acts 7 51. The same was the faith and belief of the Apostle. S. Peter saith, Our Lord is not willing that any perish, but that all return to pennance, 2. Pet. 3.9. And S. Paul hath, Our Savior God wills all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth, 1. Tim. 2.4. This was the doctrine of the Prophets before, Psal 5.5 Ezec. 18.23. and 33.11. Now then if God wills that all men should return, and yet all men doth not the same, whereof proceeds it but of their Free-will which will not work with the will of God? Therefore our Savior saith in sundrie places, If thou wilt enter into life, keep my commands: If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell all that

thou hast, Matth. 19.17. He that will follow me, let him deny him∣self, Luke 9.23.