An Answer to a Great Number of Blasphemous Cavillations

Is it therefore a good argument, that all those that teach such manner of doctrine be false teachers? or that no such doctrine is contained in the holy Scriptures? I will make the like reason: Nether Moses, nether John the Baptist in any expressed words, have left to us written▪ that Christ Jesus should be born of a virgin, that he should suffer in Jerusalem▪ that his disciples should all be slandered, and flee from him, that he should rise again, and ascending into the heaven, should send the holy Ghost visibly upon his Apostles. nether Moses I say nether yet John, who were excellent teachers, have taught in expressed words any such doctrine, Ergo the teachers of it be false teachers, & it is not written in gods scriptures. your argument is no better, admitting that the Apostle had never made mention of any sort elected.

Is it therefore a good argument, that all those that teach such maner of doctryne be fals teachers? or that no such doctryne is conteined in the holie Scriptures? I wil make the like reason: Nether Moises, nether Iohn the Baptist in any expressed wordes, haue left to vs written▪ that Christ Iesus shoulde be born of a virgin, that he shoulde suffer in Ierusalem▪ that his disciples should all be sclādered, and flee from him, that he shoulde rise againe, and ascending into the heauen, shoulde send the holie Gost visibly vpon his Apostles. nether Moises I say nether yet Iohn, who were excellent teachers, haue taught in expressed wordes any such doctrine, Ergo the teachers of it be fals teachers, & it is not written in gods scriptures. your argument is no better, admitting that the Apostle had neuer made mētion of any sort elected.

But now shortly to answer to all which without purpose ye heap together in this place,¹ I say first, ye ought to have made a difference betwixt those seven congregations where Christ Jesus had been preached, and received. and the rest of the world which then remained, or after was to remain in blindness,