An Answer to a Great Number of Blasphemous Cavillations

If I should say, I am appointed to death, to feel the punishment of sin, and so to make sin to cease: will thou therefore say, that this particle, To, in the former place, where I say I am appointed to death, and in the second place where I say, to seal the punishment of sin, and to make sin to cease, are all one phrase, and ought a like to be resolved? I suppose thou wilt not. for in the first place, it can be none other ways resolved but thus, I am appointed to death that is, I must needs die: but in the second place, two causes of death be assigned: for where I say, to feel the punishment of sin, I understand, that one cause of death is, that I and all men may feel, how horrible is sin before God: and in this last I understand that death so putteth an end to sin, that after it may not trouble the elect of God. The phrase of S. Paul is much more different ⟨p. 183⟩from all that thou adducest, then be these phrases before alleged, one different from an other. for where he sayeth, vessels of wrath ordained to destruction, he signifieth the final end of the vessels of wrath, to be ordained, and before determined in gods eternal counsel. And in all these places: to provoke the Lord, to anger, to defile my Sanctuary, to kindle gods wrath against Israel: to make Israel sin, and such like, are their actions signified to be the causes of gods anger,¹ gods wrath, and why he reputed his Sanctuary polluted. Thus thy frowardness causeth me to trouble the simple reader. The place of leremie tho v maliciously doest pervert, for it can be in no wise so translated. But what tongue so ever thou doest follow thou must say woe be to me, O my mother that thus hast born me, a man that am a brawler, and a man of contention in the hole land

If I should say, I am appointed to death, to fele the punyshement of sinne, and so to make sinne to cease: will thow therefor say, that this particle, To, in the former place, where I say I am appointed to death, and in the second place where I say, to sele the punishement of sinne, and to make sinne to cease, are all one phrase, and oght a like to be resolued? I suppose thow wilt not. for in the first place, it cā be none other wies resolued but thus, I am appointed to death that is, I must nedes die: but in the secōd place, two causes of death be assigned: for where I say, to fele the punishemen• of sinne, I vnderstand, that one cause of death is, that I and all mē may fele, how horrible is sinne before God: and in this last I vnderstād that death so putteth an ēd to sinne, that after it may not trooble the elect of God. The phrase of S. Paule is much more different