An Answer to a Great Number of Blasphemous Cavillations

When ye would be seen most crafty and subtle,¹ then appeareth most your ignorance and vanity. To prove an absurdity in our doctrine, thus ye reason: If where so ever election be, there is also reprobation of the same kind (this last patch, I say, is your malicious addition, but let it stand for a testimony of your untruth) if then say you Christ be the elect and chosen of God (as the scriptures affirm him to be) then must it needs follow, that there be more Christs of whom •ome must be reprobate: and thereupon ye bring in your foolish tale of your Jew.

When ye wold be sene most craftie and subtill,¹ then appereth most your ignorāce and vanitie. To proue an absurditie in our doctrine, thus ye reason: If where so euer election be, there is also reprobation of the same kynd (this last patch, I say, is your malicious addition, but let it stand for a testimonie of your vntrueth) if then say you Christ be the elect and chosen of God (as the scriptures affirme him to be) then must it nedes folowe, that there be mo Christes of whome •ome must be reprobate: and thereupon ye bring in your foolishe tale of your Iew.

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First I answer, you according to your merry disposition, which I perceive did titill you in writing this part: That if ye can make no difference betwixt election, and elect, then I would ye were committed again to some quick and sharp Pedagogue who with sharp rods would let you feel what difference there is betwixt Agentem & Patientem. Assuredly your unreverent jesting in these secrete mysteries of our redemption, and these scoffing taunts in malice cast out against the eternal Son of God, and his undoubted verity, deserve none other answer. but yet ⟨p. 114⟩