And again, those Christians to whom Peter and John resorted after they were freed from their troubles about the miracle of curing the lame man, praising God for the same, say thus: _Of a truth against the holy child Jesus whom thou hast anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done._ (Acts iv. 27, 28.) And St. Paul, Rom. ix. 16: _It is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy_: and verse 18, 19, 20: _Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. Thou wilt say unto me, why doth he yet find fault; for who hath resisted his will? Nay but, O man, who art thou that disputest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, why hast thou made me thus?_ And again, (1 Cor. iv 7): _Who maketh thee differ from another? and what hast thou that thou hast not received?_ and 1 Cor. xii. 6: _There are diversities of operations, but it is the same God that worketh all in all_: and Eph. ii. 10: _We are his workmanship created in Jesus Christ unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them_: and Philip. ii. 13: _It is God that worketh in you both to will and to do, of his good pleasure._ To these places may be added all the places that make God the giver of all graces, that is to say, of all good habits and inclinations; and all the places wherein men are said to be dead in sin. For by all these it is manifest, that although a man may live holily if he _will_, yet _to will_ is the work of God, and not eligible by man. A second sort of places there be, that make equally for the Bishop and me; and they be such as say that a man hath election, and may do many things _if he will_, and also _if he will_ he may leave them undone; but not that God Almighty naturally or supernaturally worketh in us every act of the will, as in my opinion; nor that he worketh it not, as in the Bishop’s opinion; though he use those places as arguments on his side. The places are such as these, (Deut. xxx. 19): _I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live_: and (Ecclesiasticus xv. 14): _God in the beginning made man, and left him in the hand of his counsel_: and verse 16, 17: _He hath set fire and water before thee, stretch forth thy hand to whither thou wilt. Before man is life and death, and whether him liketh shall be given him._