An Answer to a Great Number of Blasphemous Cavillations

But if the scriptures will not satisfy you, then must you be beaten §1with your own r•d. for if I grant you that all men did not fall out of gods holy election unto condemnation by Adams transgression, it followeth thereupon that the coming of Christ his precious death and passion is superfluous, vain and of none effect So by your perverse doctrine •e will infect Christianity with the chief error wherewith the Jews be deluded,¹ That […] they esteem it a great madness, to say that Christ should suffer death for the offence committed by Adam, even so may I collect of your error-for what needeth Christ to die for them, whom nether Adams transgression▪ nether their own could make them fall from gods election. but now I will more largely dilate this argument, Election was afore the world when there was no sin, and the promise of Christ, was made sithence the world was created, because of sin for had not sin been we needed no new promise being already just and holy images of God. Now if the elect did not §2fall out of the election, by Adans transgression, then need they no redeemer, being already safe by reason of the election, in which they were afore sin, and remain still in the same. Because as you say the elect nether did, nor can fall out of the election. Then seeing the elect be safe and hole they need no physician, nether came Christ to call the righteous, but •innrs. wherefore