Peter Vermigli: Providence and Predestination

Peter Martyr Vermigli
(Italian Pietro Martire Vermigli)
 (8 September 1499 – 12 November 1562),
sometimes simply Peter Martyr,
was an Italian theologian
of the Reformation period.

An accurate and brief comment is registered at www.wikipedia.org, a dangerous source and, generally, unacceptable source for scholars.  However, this is accurate about Peter Vermigli.
"Vermigli and Ochino were both invited to England by Archbishop Thomas Cranmer in 1547, and given a pension of forty marks by the government. In 1548 Vermigli was appointed Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford, in succession to Dr. Richard Smyth, and was incorporated D.D. In 1549 he took part in a great disputation on the Eucharist. He had abandoned Luther's doctrine of sacramental union and adopted the doctrine of a Real Presence conditioned by the faith of the recipient standard amongst Reformed theologians. Indeed, Vermigli appears to have profoundly affected the views of Cranmer and Ridley, and historians have proven definitively that Vermigli had a great deal of influence in the modifications of the Book of Common Prayer in 1552."

(H/T to Jake Griesel re: Peter Vermigli, who taught in England at Archbishop Cranmer's request).

"Not all those who are called are predestined. For Christ said: "Many are called, but few are chosen" (Matt 22:14). But they contend that the calling is universal and that God would wish everyone saved. If it is understood as universal calling because it is offered to all and no one is excluded by name, it is true. If it is also called universal because the death of Christ and his redemption is sufficient for the whole world; that also is most true. But if this universality is meant so that it is in everyone's hand to receive the promises, I deny it: because to some it is given, to others it is not given. As if we did not see also that for a long time the very preaching of the Gospel was not given to many places, ages, and nations. God would have all to be saved, provided they believe. He gives faith to whom it seems good to him. For he may justly do with his own what he will." - Peter Martyr Vermigli (1499-1562), “Providence and Predestination" in Philosophical Works, vol 4, p.332