An evident display of Popish practises, or patched Pelagianism Wherein is mightily cleared the…An euident display of Popish practises, or patched Pelagianisme Wherein is mightelie cleared the…

Now at the last we are come to that, whereof you are wont to triumph, as though we did make God the author of sin, for of the twelve Articles ⟨p. 82⟩which remain, I see them pertain to this one purpose, that is to the end you may seem in a matter never so absurd, and of it self almost incredible, to imagine no falsehood, especially to those men who have not either leisure or will enough to read our writings. But so I trust I shall answer that all men though very unlearned or else thy very friends in nothing more then this one may easily perceive thine impudency and ignorance. For seeing their be two sorts of men which urge against us this blemish: one of them which confess in deed that we do not say so, but that yet we set down those things of which it is necessarily gathered: and the other of them who are not ashamed to say & write, that we plainly affirm this same, it shall be sufficient to teach those that they knew not, but in deed the shameless impudency of these is worthy to be more sharply suppressed. Yet I will do my best that all men may see that I rather weigh what may be come us then thee. Seeing therefore there be only two things whereby men may be discerned of men, that is to say, deeds and words, under which also I comprehend writings, say I pray thee, if thou canst, that the demeanours of Calvin or any of us be such, as that the least suspicion of such blasphemy may fall upon us. For he must not only be allied to some one small fault, or crime, which should amove all difference betwixt good and evil, filthiness, and honesty: but utterly given over to all wickedness, and wonderfully practised, without all shame, in every kind of mischief, even so much, that as the Logicians say, [Greek or Hebrew] affection hath proceeded in [Greek or Hebrew] into an habit. But that we may confess our selves willingly, and of our own accord to be by almost infinite distance far from that perfection which thou dreamest, yet by Gods benefit so have we lived to this present day in the Church of God, that (which I wish be spoken ⟨p. 83⟩without all show of boasting) no man hath yet been found, which hath thought our life worthy his reproof, of whom all good men had rather not be reprehended then praised.

NOw at the last we are come to that, whereof you are wonte to triumph, as though we did make God the author of sinne, for of the twelue Articles ⟨p. 82⟩