And those places which the Bishop citeth: _If a wife make a vow, it is left to her husband’s choice, either to establish it, or to make it void_, (Numb. xxx. 13): and (Josh. xxiv. 15): _Chuse ye this day whom you will serve_, &c. _But I and my house will serve the Lord_: and (2 Sam. xxiv. 12): _I offer thee three things, choose which of them I shall do_: and (Isaiah vii. 16): _before the child shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good_. And besides these very many other places to the same effect. The third sort of texts are those which seem to make against me. As Isaiah v. 4: _What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it?_ And Jeremiah xix. 5: _They have also built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal; which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind._ And Hosea xiii. 9: _O Israel, thy destruction is from thyself, but in me is thy help._ And 1 Tim. ii. 4: _Who will have all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of truth._ And Eccl. xv. 11, 12: _Say not thou, it is through the Lord I fell away; for thou oughtest not to do the things that he hateth. Say not thou, he hath caused me to err; for he hath no need of thee, sinful man._ And many other places to the like purpose. You see how great the apparent contradiction is between the first and the third sort of texts, which being both Scripture, may and must be reconciled and made to stand together; which unless the rigour of the letter be on one or both sides with intelligible and reasonable interpretations mollified, is impossible. The Schoolmen, to keep the literal sense of the third sort of texts, interpret the first sort thus; the words of Joseph, _It was not you that sent me hither, but God_; they interpret in this manner: _It was you that sold me into Egypt, God did but permit it; it was God that sent me and not you_; as if the _selling_ were not the _sending_. This is Suarez; of whom and the Bishop I would know, whether the _selling_ of Joseph did infallibly and inevitably follow that permission. If it did, then that _selling_ was necessitated beforehand by an eternal permission. If it did not, how can there be attributed to God a foreknowledge of it, when by the _liberty of human will_ it might have been frustrated? I would know also whether the _selling_ of Joseph into Egypt were a sin? If it were, why doth Joseph say, _Be not grieved nor angry with yourselves that ye sold me hither_? Ought not a man to be grieved and angry with himself for sinning? If it were no sin, then treachery and fratricide is no sin.