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A01753	A briefe treatice of election and reprobation with certen ansvvers to the obiections of the aduersaries of thys doctrine: vvritten by Anthonie Gylbie.	Gilby, Anthony, ca. 1510-1585.	1575 (1575)	STC 11885; ESTC S103156	25,258	74

of necessitie the sonne of God who onely is good of nature becommeth man and taketh this office to beare the Image of God inuisible Colos 1. And to be the head of that spirituall perfection whiche was to be wrought in mankinde by his aforeappoynted purpose and becommeth the first begotten of all creatures for by him were all things created both in heauen and earth visible and inuisible maiestie Lordeship rule and power by whom and in whom al things are created and he is before all creatures and in him all things haue their béeing And he is the head of the body he is the beginning and first begotten of the head that in all things he might haue preheminence For it pleased the father that in him should dwell all fulnesse and by him to reconcile all things to him selfe And to set at peace by him through the bloud of hys crosse both things in heauen and things in earth for euen you sayth Paule whiche in times past were straungers bicause your mindes were set in euill works hath he nowe reconciled in the body of his flesh throughe deathe to make you holy and blamelesse and without fault in his sight Séeing then that this can not be denied to be the course of God his holy working to driue away this darknesse and to bring man to his light to take away sinne and to bring man to a life blamelesse the state of innocencie and his owne likenesse shal it not be moste uecessarie to haue Preachers and teachers to tel vs this same and to admonishe vs wherevnto we be called séeing of our selues and our owne reasons no suche thing can be perceyued Therefore haue we preachings and exhortations as Paule sayth for when the worlde thorough wisdome knew not God in the wisdome of God it pleased God throughe the foolishnesse of preaching to saue them that beleeued 1. Corin. 1. And as he also saythe of hym selfe in another place We do preach this rychesse in Christe the hope of your glory warning all men and teaching all men in all wisdome to make all men perfect in Christ Iesu Thus serueth then exhortations dehortations comminations and publications of the lawes and wyll of our Lorde God that he may be knowen the Lorde and gouernour ouer all the thynges hée hath created and the onely lawe maker amongst hys creatures publishyng vnto all that perfect equitie and Iustice which ought in no case to be resisted Whervnto if they can not attayne they must confesse and knowledge theyr own infirmitie and weaknesse and submit them selues vnder the mighty hande of God and so doyng they shall be receyued as children of the most louing and most mercifull father in suche degrees of perfection as he hath appoynted to the beautifying of the body of his sonne our head So that the Lorde God dothe teache all and lighten all men that come into the worlde bothe chosen and Reprobate with such a knowledge as doth the good Prince which vnto all his Subiects proclaymeth his statutes and publisheth his lawes but like a good and tender father he leadeth his children regenerate and borne a newe neyther of flesh nor bloud nor the will of man ' and guideth them with his fatherly spirite in the pathes of the same lawes writing in their hearts what is his good will and pleasure In the which course of God his wonderfull worke the wicked hathe no cause to complayne for as their father whom they doo followe is named the Prince of thys worlde so they haue the world at will and are riche roysters and welthy worldlings trampling vnder their féete poore Abell and the despised Christians neyther will they change their estate with any such no when they are called from darknesse to be partakers of light of life and the heauenly daynties layde vp in poore Christ they despise that estate excusing their purchases their marchaundise and their earthly lustes and delightes Luke 14. Wherfore in the other worlde they that héere are oppressed shall haue comforte and the other torment Suche is the order then of God his working that by the contrarietie of the Chosen and Reprobate of Iacob and Esau of Pharao and Israell and the wisedome of God and the wisedome of the worlde he wyll set foorth his maiestie his power his diuinitie his Godhead so muche as may be knowen vnto man that is to say in his wisedome iustice mercy and almightinesse For comparing his wysedome to any other wisedome nowe appeareth the contrarie that it is very foolishnesse euen darknesse compared vnto light death vnto lyfe lyes vnto truth as Paule sayth When they accompted them selues wise they were made very fooles and chaunged the truthe wyth lyes the glory of the immortall God to mortall and corruptible creatures They following their owne righteousnesse could not come to the righteousnesse of God in Iesu Christe Wherefore of necessitie God dyd shut all vnder sinne that his mercy myghte flow ouer all And that hys mighty power might appeare he hath created the heauens and earth wherein we do sée lighte and darknesse death and life shame and glory weaknesse and strength lyes and truthe righteousnesse and vnrighteousnesse to serue to the setting foorth of hys glory that man maye be driuen to saye with Paule O the depthe of the riches of the wisdome and knowledge of god How incomprehensible are his wayes Howe vnsearchable are his iudgemēts For who hath knowen the minde of the Lorde or who hath bin his counseller Or who hath giuen him ought aforehand that he might be repayed For by him and throughe him and in him are all things to him be prayse for euer Amen And as this holy Apostle Paule dothe submitte him selfe to the great depthe of the wisedome of God and his wonderfull Regimente and Prouidence and would beate and driue downe all flesh by the consideration of the same So also al our Fathers from the beginning hath layde this the onely foundation of their faythe Wherefore Moyses beginneth to stablish the faith of man at the historie of the creatiō so foorth by the order of God hys present gouernaunce about the things made and created And Dauid for a confession of his faithe pronounceth of this prouidence Psa 95. I do know that thou art a great Lorde and a Lorde aboue all Gods. All thinges whatsouer the Lordes pleasure was he hath made in the heuēs the earth the seas the botomlesse waters Againe by the worde of God al thinges were set in their places by the spirit of his mouth all the powers that be in them And Paul considering most déepely and prououncing moste playnely thys diuine gouernaunce of the creatures and Godly prouidence of the creator in all things for his Elect and chosen sayth thus Roma 8. We knowe that all thinges woorke for the beste vnto them that loue God who also are called of purpose for those which he knewe before he also predestinate that they shoulde be like fashoned to the shape of hys

¶ A BRIEFE Treatice of Election and Reprobation with certen Ansvvers to the Obiections of the Aduersaries of thys doctrine Written by Anthonie Gylbie Rom. 9. I vvill shevve mercy vpon vvhom I vvill shevv mercy and I vvill haue compassion vpon vvhom I vvill haue compassion ⸪ ¶ A briefe Treatise with certayne Ansvvers to the Obiections of the Aduersaries of this doctrine vvritten by Anthonie Gylbie VVHereas three yeeres ago dearely beloued I did write of this matter of Election Reprobation which is called Predestination in a certayn Commentarie vpon the Prophet Malachie by the occasion of this texte I haue loued Iacob and I haue hated Esau The which Treatise by the rage of persecution partly perished and parte dyd come of late to my hands accompting this doctrine so necessarie that vpon all occasions it ought with reuerence to be vttred to the glory of God which so wonderfully appeareth in this his riche mercie towards vs whom he chooseth from the filthe of sinne to serue him in righteousnesse and to the beating down of our corrupt nature which without this eyther moūteth by pride vnto presumptiō or falleth by infidelitie to desperation Bicause that without some taste of this diuine prouidence in Predestination there can be no fayth but eyther a doubtfull wauering leading to dispayre which we haue felte in the Papistrie whyles we looked to our owne weaknesse and infirmitie not able to endure one houre in the way of righteousnesse or else a vayne presumption of fayned holynesse whyles we beholde our owne beléefe and good works or the perfection that we doo imagine in our owne selues as doo the Anabaptistes Therefore I thought it good according to my simple Talent to testifie this truthe agayne vnto the worlde at the Printing of this worthy Table of the great lerned man Master Beza which is set foorth in French Latin and Italian and now into Englishe translated by our brother VV. VVhittingham wherein is most euidētly set foorth before our eyes the chiefe ground of this doctrine and the principall poyntes thereof are so déepely opened that there séemed to wante nothing that was possible in so few lines to be vttered yet for the shortnesse therein all things can not be conteyned but that some brief lessons for the vnlearned who hath not their sences fully exercised with suche déepe sentences may well be adioyned as euery man hereafter shall héerevnto be moued by the spirit of God working in their hearts that many bearing witnesse to the truthe of this most profitable doctrine nowe reuealed the mercies of God in choosing his chyldren may more and more day by day be disclosed and by the witnesse of diuers consenting togither in one God the father of our Lorde Iesus Christ may be glorified For héerein chiefly standeth his prayse honor and glory that these his wonderfull mercies towarde his Electe may be praysed Nowe there is no meane more apte nor doctrine more conuenient to establish the fayth of the Saincts than to certifie by the Scriptures that God hathe chosen them before the beginning of the worlde to be holy to him selfe and so written their names in the booke of lyfe in the heauens that all their saluation resteth wholly vpon his hands and holy counsell that can by no meanes be altred or chaūged so that neyther death diuell nor hell dare nowe accuse them that are by adoption grafted in Christ who are called of the eternall purpose bicause it is God that iustifieth and who dare condemne them It is Christ that is giuen for them and howe shall not all things be giuen also to them For them that he knewe before them he ordeyned before that they should be like fashioned to the image of his sonne and whome he appoynted before those also he called and whome he called those also he iustified and whom he iustified those also he glorified that this eternall purpose and counsell of God béeing once reuealed to his Saincts by the effectuall vocation and calling whiche is the iustification of fayth wrought in their heartes by the holy spirite they can no longer doubt neyther of Election Predestination saluation or glorification Neither can any thing more beate downe mans nature and the pride of his vayne heart than to behold the maiestie of God making them by grace so farre vnlyke one to the other who were both one altogither by nature the children of wrath of vengeance damnation as the wonderfull example of Iacob and Esau of whom the Lorde pronounceth that he loueth the one and hateth the other before they were borne and the terrible sentēce agaynst Pharao whome the Scripture affyrmeth that God raysed vp to shewe vpon him his power and hardened hys hart to make his name knowne suche like which euerywhere are set before our eyes to cause man fall downe before God and to feare his iudgements doth declare But our Aduersaries obiect agaynst vs that this doctrine is an offence to many and that some abuse it to carnall libertie I doo answere that Christe is a stumbling stone to many and all the doctrine of the Gospell is likewise slaundered by the euill conuersation of others yet may we not prohibite the swéete floures from the Bées bicause Spiders sucke thence their poyson no more than wée maye stoppe the sunne to shyne bycause it hurteth sore eyes But that it may be the glad tydings of saluation to the assurance of the faith of the one and a cleare testimonie of cōdemnation of the other to the beating downe of the pride of man thys glorious coūsel of the mightie God ought vnto all in this cleare reuelation of the Gospel to be offered opened and published Wherefore by the good wyll of God we entende to speake of this greate matter none other wayes neyther in any other sorte then the open Scriptures shall approue our sayings Therfore we say with the holy Apostle Sayncte Paule Blessed be God the Father of our Lorde Iesus Christe whiche hath blessed vs with all spiritual blessings in heauenly things vnto Christe lyke as he hath elected and chosen vs in hym before the foundations of the worlde were layde that we should be holy and blamelesse before him by loue who hath predestinate vs that hée mighte fréely choose vs to bée hys chyldren by Iesus Christe Ephe. j. And thoughe there come some wicked men whiche were long before appoynted to this iudgement whiche doo turne the grace of oure God to lasciuiousnesse and wantonnesse as holy Iude saythe yet knowe we that we are chosen by Iesus Christe that the glory of his grace hys fauoure and mercy towardes vs mighte be praysed For wée are the electe and chosen kynred and hys people by purchase that wée shoulde shewe the vertue of hym whyche hathe called vs foorth of darknesse into this maruellous lighte This people ordeyned to saluation onely beléeueth Act. 13. For thys Electe people onely was Chryste sent into this worlde To them onely is the worde of saluation sente as