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…

THE ANSWER.

THE AVNSVVERE.

These be the things (Slanderer) which the Disciples of the faithful & constant servant of God John Calvin, do gather out of the word of God against thy profane and wicked forgeries, and do admonish men, that they beware most diligently, of thy not no we dissembled, but apparent doctrine, which is patched together of the Papists, Anabaptists, Seruetus, Pelagius his, and finally thine own monsters and miscreants. But whereas thou rulest upon Calvins Disciples, in that surely I cannot be angry with thee, albeit I do not only willingly profess my self to be one of their number, but daily also thank God for it. It pitieth me rather for thee, which haste forgot two things, one of the which at the least, I would thou haddest remembered. For that I may omit many men of all degrees, which have heard Calvin teaching these things that he doth teach, in France and Germany, with great fruit, and who till this day do keep a-thankful memory of this benefit, that I may pass an innumerable company of most learned men, which at this day depend upon the teachers voice. What corner in all Christendom doest thou think that there is, wherein there are not many that think themselves to have profited by reading the writings of such an excellent Divine? What will become of thee (miserable caitiff) if out of so great a number, but some thousandth man shall take in hand to oppugn these thy dotages? Verily a large field of exercising thy patience is opened to thee: and so it may be, it will come to pass, that thou which of late betwixt those thine accomplishments, sporting (as I think) saidest, that thou waste but only two miles distant from the scope of perfection, art even carried beyond the mark. ⟨p. 273⟩But I do forgive thee. For in the finding out and describing of our adversaries arguments, thou waste so wonderfully occupied (goodman) and for this desert most dear to us, that thou diddest fling thy self at unawares into this danger, that is, unmindful that thou haddest to do with proud men, bloody, slanderous, counterfeit, impatient, but especially such as will keep an injury long, with cursed speakers, that they may represent their Master.