An Answer to a Great Number of Blasphemous Cavillations

From the third kind of election, which ye call most especial how you be able to prove that the seventy disciples did so depart from Christ that there was no difference betwixt them and the trudging of Judas (as ye term his horrible treason) be judges your self.¹ In the sixth of John we read that many of his disciples left him and falling from him did go with him no more. But whether these were the ⟨p. 105⟩hole seventy whom he sent to preach or others who for a time did follow him it is not expressed, neither yet doeth the text say that all his disciples fell from him, but many departed. further it appeareth to me very rash judgement to pronounce that none that departed from Christ at any time in his lief before his death upon the cross,² did at any time after, return unto him, but that all such did remain in damnation with Judas. For I find that all his Apostles did fly and leave him, and yet we know they were called again. And so also do we find were two of the disciples to whom Christ appearing betwixt Jerusalem and Emmaus did first instruct them and after revealed him self unto them. This I note to give you occasion to be more circumspect in so weighty matters.

Frome the third kind of election, which ye call most especiall how you be able to proue that the seuentie disciples did so depart from Christe that there was no difference betwext them and the trudging of Iudas (as ye terme his horrible treason) be iudges your self.¹ In the sixt of Iohn we read that many of his disciples left him and fallīg frō him did go with him no more. But whether these were the ⟨p. 105⟩hole seuentie whom he sent to preach or others who for a time did folow him it is not expressed, neither yet doeth the text say that all his disciples fell from him, but many departed. further it appereth to me verie rashe iudgemēt to pronoūce that none that departed from Christe at any tyme in his lief before his death vpon the crosse,²