An Answer to a Great Number of Blasphemous Cavillations

Of the example of Nebuchadnezzar ye can make but a particular conclusion in this for me, Nebuchadnezzar after he had felt the just punishment of his pride and arrogance, gave glory unto God: Ergo some man after punishment giveth glory unto God. If you make your conclusion extend any further, it is false. for if you say that all men after punishment give glory unto God, with the same confession that he gave, many examples may be shown to the contrary. if you say that none other giveth glory unto God, except such as so be punished: that will be proved likewise false. And if you say that gods glory doth shine in none, except in those that acknowledge & confess God to be merciful and just, that is most vain of all, and thus I say your conclusion must be but particular.

Of the example of Nabuchadnezer ye can make but a particular cōclusion in this for me, Nabuchadnezer after he had felt the iust punishement of his pride and arrogācie, gaue glory vnto God: Ergo some man after punishmēt giueth glory vnto God. If you make your cōclusion extend any further, it is fals. for if you say that all men after punishment giue glory vnto God, wt the same confession that he gaue, many examples may be showen to the cōtary. if you saye that none other giueth glory vnto God, except such as so be punished: that will be proued likewies fals. And if you say yt gods glory doth shine in none, except in those that acknowledge & confesse God to be mercifull and iust, that is most vaine of all, and thus I say your conclusion must be but particulare.

The reasons & the conclusion, which you make upon these words of David: Praise God all you nations, are so foolish, on the one part, and so filthy and execrable upon the other, that amongest all nations ye ought not only to he mocked, but also to be had in horror and detestation. first you say. If God must be praised amongest all nations, then must gods works be such as all nations may know them and praise them. I answer, even so they are, and such amongest all nations as have the eyes of their minds illuminated by gods holy spirit, do see just cause why that they ought to praise gods wisdom, even in all his works. But you proceed saying there is no nation which at any time shall acknowledge God to be just, for that be punishe ma, for that whereunto he him self did provoke him, and so after the example of the priests of the Philistines, ye ask this question: If God should punish man because he hath a beard, should any glory redound […] God there of, seeing he hath given us beards his self, And so you scoff & jest at us, saying that we be very religious: because we say that none ought to speak so unreverently of gods works. God is witness that I write notwithou some grief of heart, nether yet that I affirm this, which I am to speak. for privy hatred, which I bear against the person of any