An Answer to a Great Number of Blasphemous Cavillations

The chief proposition which ye maintain to the end of this your book, is that the elect may fall from their election To the which I answer, that if ye understand, that those ⟨p. 239⟩whom God the father hath elected in his eternal counsel, to lief everlasting in Christ Jesus,¹ may so fall from their election, that finally they perish, if this (I say) be your understanding, then I fear not to affirm, that proposition to be utterly false, erroneous, and damnable, as it that doeth expressedly repugn to gods plain scriptures. for Christ Jesus doeth affirm that so many as his father hath given to him, shall come unto him, And to such as do come, he promiseth life everlasting which he hath in him self, for the salvation of his flock, whereof none shall perish, for forth of his hands, can none be pulled away.

The chief propositiō which ye maītein to ye end of this your book, is that the elect may fall frō their election To the which I answer, that if ye vnderstand, that those ⟨p. 239⟩whom God the father hath elected in his eternall counsel, to lief euerlasting in Christ Iesus,¹ may so fall from their election, that finally they perish, if this (I say) be your vnderstanding, then I feare not to affirme, that proposition to be vtterlie fals, erroneous, and dānable, as it that doeth expressedly repugne to gods plaine scriptures. for Christ Iesus doeth affirme that so many as his father hath giuen to him, shal come vnto him, And to such as do come, he promiseth life euerlasting which he hath in him self, for the saluatiō of his flock, whereof none shal perish, for furth of his hands, can none be pulled away.

1. 1The anabaptists hold that the elect may fall from their election. John 6 John 10The anabaptistes holde that the elect may fall from their election.