A treatise of faith divided into two parts. The first showing the nature, the…A treatise of faith diuided into two parts. The first shewing the nature, the…

Our Saviour Christ had said nothing namely to Paul and Silas as touching the Jailer, that if he did believe he should be saved: But out of that universal,¹ Whosoever believeth shall be saved, they proclaim comfort to him in special, Believe thou, and thou shalt be saved. There is nothing found in Scripture expressly touching this or that mans resurrection in particular: is it not then to be believed out of the Word? The Scripture saith to him that believeth, Thou shalt inherit eternal life, as much as it doth to any particular man now living, Thou shalt rise again. Because our Saviour said to the Apostles,² Whosoever sins ye remit, they are remitted, our Adversaries (though falsely) would collect; that their Priests have power to absolve a man from all his sins. Do they know assuredly, that what was spoken to the Apostles, was spoken also to their Priests, though there be no particular mention of them in the Gospel; and will they not allow us to infer a particular from a general?³ David could say, The Lord is my shepherd; Job I know that my Redeemer liveth: which they believed out of the Word, grounding themselves upon the promises of mercy. And we now living by the same faith, having the same precious promises, being led by the same Spirit, may out of the word of life be assured that our sins are forgiven and covered. Moreover every faithful soul in particular doth find,⁴ hear and read in the word, Who forgiveth all thine iniquities, and healeth all thine infirmities. To every faithful soul in special the Lord saith,⁵ I even I am he that blotteth out thine iniquities for mine own sake, and remember thy sins no more. This he speaketh to singular believers, not to some persons only as it is evident in that the Scripture doth in universal repeat the same thing. What our Saviour said to the young man, If thou wouldst enter into life, keep the Commandments, the papists teach that is spoken to ⟨p. 103⟩all men, and if a man fulfil that condition he may believe to be saved. Look how they know the words spoken to the young man so many hundred years past to be directed unto them: