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…

But contrariwise, when they teach, that such general propositions are to be set against thoughts, especially of sins paste, and our unworthiness, which may fear our consciences, who may not see, that they take them in no other sense, than that men may persuade themselves, that all are elect of God, so that they embrace in faith the promises offered. Betwixt us therefore, and certain others, who teach, that there is an universal grace of God, that is, that it is confusedly offered to all without [Greek or Hebrew] without respect of persons, there is in very deed no difference. But we in deed dos teaching, together with the doctrine, do join the use thereof. But thou when thou neither understandest what this doctrine is, nor what is the use thereof, nor hast with sufficient diligence read their writings, whose name & authori ti• thou blemishest with thy blasphemies, what dost thou ⟨p. 261⟩else but bewray thine ignorance joined with intolerable lewdness? But that other place of Peter which ye citest, wherein it is said that God will have no man perish, we have sufficiently expounded in the Refutation of the ninth Argument upon the first slander. Therefore I come to the third testimony. For, thou sayest, God sent his son into the earth, whose righteousness did superabound, wheresoever sin did abound. Here I can not enough marvel at thine impudency. For I read not in Paul, Wheresoever sin abounded: but, where sin abounded, that there abounded grace. But indeed the Apostles purpose in these words is not to show how largely the benefit of Christ extendeth, that is, whether it belong to all or to certain only, but rather to she we this one thing, that the law of Moses did not therefore exceed the law of nature, that any should be justified in it: but of the contrary, that men might the rather be holden convict and guilty: but when men are toiled in that miserable condition, that the grace of the Gospel hath appeared which should abound above sin, and should bring the greater benefit to men, by so much, how much more was the bondage of sin, which had increased by the law. Who may not think, that thou haste loss all judgement of mind, when thou writest these, to that end ye thou mayst prone, that God willeth that all men should be saved?

But contrariwise, when they teache, that such generall propositions are to be set against thoughtes, especially of sinnes paste, and our vnworthinesse, whiche may feare our consciences, who may not sée, that they take them in no other sense, than that men maye perswade themselues, that all are electe of God, so that they embrace in faith the promises offered. Betwixte vs therfore, and certaine others, who teach, that there is an vniuersall grace of God, that is, that it is confusedly offered to al without without respect of persons, there is in verye déede no difference. But we in déede dos teaching, togither with the doctrine, do ioine the vse therof. But thou when thou neither vnderstandest what this doctrine is, nor what is the vse therof, nor hast with sufficiet diligence read their writings, whose name & authori ti thou blemishest with thy blasphemies, what dost thou