iudgcment

For they eucr willingly defire to make fhific againft the iudgcment of God.

The institution of christian religion 1578

As touching the fathers, whofe writings remame, cuen they when they fpcakc of their owne iudgcment, except Hicrome, did not with Co great ipitefuir. efie deface the honefty of manage.

The institution of christian religion 1578

Only let there be no prccife and cruel rigoroufncffc, and that iudgcment featc which may worthily be cal -

The institution of christian religion 1578

He doth in deede propounderothecouncell, ifanything be to be donc,3nd geueth warning; what is mete to be done: but ihere - wirhall he heareth other, and doth not oncly graunte them place to fpcake their minde, but Icaueth the iudgcment to tlicm -. when they had determined, he followed and obeyed.

The institution of christian religion 1578

Why therefore doth he not teach all, that they may come to Chrift, but becaufe all whome he teacheth, by mercy he tea - cheth: whom he doth not teach, by iudgcment he doth not tcache? becaufe he hath mercy vppon whom he will, and hardencth whomc he will.

The institution of christian religion 1578

»• and to them to whom it is giuen, it is not giuen according to the me - rites of workes, nor according to the merites of will, but office fa - uour; and to them to whom it is not giuen, we know that it is by the iuft iudgcment of God that it is not giuen.

The institution of christian religion 1578

For though they go not thus farre forwardc with the children of God, that after the throwing downe of their flcfh they be renued and florifh againe in the inward man, but amafed with the firft terrour do lie ftiU in defperation: yet it fcrueth to (hev/c forth the cquitie of Gods iudgcment, that their confciences be tofTcd with fuch wayes.

The institution of christian religion 1578