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XII. Vpon that feareful Atheisme of Luther, Zuinglius & Caluin, that God is the Authour of sinne.
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XII. Vpon that feareful Atheisme of Luther, Zuinglius & Caluin, that God is the Authour of sinne.
Like Eue's vndoubted children, first of al
Themselues excuse, and without further stay
Th'fault on another, as the inforcer, lay.
But who is he, on whom they doe impose
So great a burden? Eue the serpent chose;
'Tis not sure he: ô no, I quake to tel;
He's greater then the greatest power of hel:
He (though eu'n faythlesse
We must by al meanes haue a care that God be not sayd to be the cause of euil: nor let any one, who is to liue vnder iust lawes, vtter these words in his citty, nor giue eare vnto another that shal speake them: for it is the plaine corruption of honesty, sociable life; lawes and cityes. Plato dial. 2. de Republ. siue iusto. Item Plutarchus aduersus Stoicos.
From such a thought) who al this Al did frame
Must, as the Authour, that they may be cleare
From fault, the poize of their offences beare.
The egg, whereof this monster first was made,
Was got in hel, and since by Satan layd,
Marcionistes, Manicheans and Priscillianistes,
With the Seleucians, did (the Church to spight)
Keep it, yet n'ere durst bring it forth to light.
Th'infernal Sire of this curst rabble chose
His misshap't cub Florinus, to disclose
This poysnous Hydra: he, 'twas he, who first
Arm'd with audacious pride and malice durst
Attempt to hatch it, and profane the light
Of sacred truth by it's vnhallowed sight.
Long, as vnseen, did vnregarded lye
This hellish prodigie, straight sure to die
For want of food, had not through curst remorse
Of it's iust misery Luther plaid the nurse.
He careful fram'd it steppes, he did it draw
T'a haughty passe, as scorning al it saw.
Then
When we commit adultery or murder, it is the worke of God, being the mouer, the authour & inciter &c. God moueth the theef to kil &c. he is forced to sinne &c. God hardned Pharo, not speaking hyperbolically, but he truly hardneth him, yea although he resist. Zuinglius tom. 10. de prouidentia Dei fol. 365. 366. 367. by which, and other of his sayings, he doth so plainly teach God to be the authour of sinne, as he is therefore particularly reprehended by the learned Protestant Grawerus in Absurda Absurd. c. 5. de prædest. fol. 3. 4.
The charge therof himself, most ioyful, beares.
'Til
God is the authour of al those things, which these popish Iudges would haue to happen onely by his idle sufferance. Inst. l. 1. c. 18. sect. 3. see him also affirming our sinnes to be not onely by God's permission, but also by his decree & wil. 1b. sect. 1. 2. & l. 2. c. 4. sect. 3. 4. and l. 3. c. 23. sect. 6. which blasphemy is so euidently taught both by Caluin & most of his followers, that they are expresly condemned for it, by their famous brethren, Feming. l. de vniuers. grat. p. 109. Osiand. enchir. controuers. p. 104. Schaffmanus de peccat. causis. p. 155. 27. Sitzlinus disput. Theolog. de prouid. Dei, sect. 141. Grawerus Absurda. Absurd. in frontisp. l. and the protestāt Magistrates of Berne likewise made it penal by their lawes, for any of their territories to preach Caluins doctrine therof, or for their people to read any of his bookes, containing the same. Vide litteras Senat. Bern. ad Ministros &c. ann. 1555.
(So Apes doe think their yong al creatures passe)
Handled the matter with his brother so
As soon he got it, o how it did grow
Vnder his hand! in few yeares it became
The cheef support of it new Master's name.
He brought it to ful growthe and, hauing first
A world of rare destructions rehearst,
He sent it forth, where now (alas!) we see.
Scarce any place from it's infection free.
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