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yea even among those of their sect & nation, and the Church of God hath been the more confirmed in the true and wholesome doctrine. In conclusion, I think that there is no heresy ancient, nor renewed, nor newly forged in our time, which he hath not destroyed to the very foundations. For among all other his excellent Graces there were two that did shine in him: to wit, a singular sharpness of spirit to discover ⟨image 8⟩where the difficulty of matters did lye, and then also a marvellous dexterity and aptness to make his answers without the losing of any one word, as all they will confess, yea the very enemies of the Gospel, which would attentively read his works. I have also omitted one Monster which he likewise did defeat, albeit that in that behalf I fought on his side: it is one named Sebastian Castalion, who because he had some knowledge in the tongues, and had also a certain aptness in the Latin tongue, he was here received to govern the school, But this spirit being so naturally inclined to please himself, did so dive him in his vanity, that in the end he drowned himself therein, because we could never win so much of him, as to cause him to take the pains to read the Commentaries and other works to resolve him. That was the cause why he did openly condemn the song called Canticum Canticorum, in Latin, as a filthy and wanton Book: which when it was laid to his charge, he vomited out openly a thousand injuries against the Pastors of this Church: Whereupon being commanded by the Magistrate to avouch his sayings, and being convinced of manifest malice and ⟨image 9⟩evil speaking, by justice he was appointed to depart the town after that he had acknowledged his fault: being then in the end retired to Basil, he continued there, until the time of the trouble that was stirred up by Jerome Bolsec, upon Predestination, the same man which held always of the perfection of the Anabaptists, but it was secretly and among his own sect, otherwise making no difficulty at all to shape himself like to every man, and being also greatly provoked by the death of Seruet, he discovered himself openly, first in a book which he caused to be imprinted in Latin and in French under a false and counterfeit name of Martin Belly, to whose errors and blasphemies I have answered.

yea euen among those of their sect & nation, and the Church of God hath bene the more confirmed in the true and holesome doctrine. In conclusiō, I think yt there is no heresie auncient, nor renewed, nor newly forged in our time, which he hath not destroyed to the very foundations. For among al other his excellēt Graces there were twoo that did shyne in hym: to wit, a singular sharpnesse of spirite to discouer