The Christian disputations, by Master Peter Viret. Divided into three parts, dialogue wiseThe Christian disputations, by Master Peter Viret. Deuided into three partes, dialogue wise

Eusebius. The Canons do not deny, but that he is to be rebuked, if he be an heretic, & that he erreth in the faith.

Eusebius. The Canons do not deny, but that he is to be rebuked, if he be an hereticke, & that he erreth in the faith.

Theophilus. But you do say that he cannot err. And ¹herefore when he is an heretic and out of the faith dare we to rebuke him and his doctrine: no not by our authority and silence, but by the same of God and of all his Prophets and Apostles, the which we do but propound: ⟨p. 199⟩yea which is more, by that or the ancient Doctors, as thou mightest have seen and known if thou wouldest. And if thou do not content thyself with that, I will ²show unto thee, how that wicked Antichrist condemneth himself of his own mouth, and confesseth that there is no such Purgatory, as he would establish. For he himself confesseth, after that he is much glorified, that God, which hath saved all men, knoweth no work of imperfection. And for that cause, be pardoneth not sins in part. Therefore the gloss made upon that text allegeth, two verses containing that sentence: The great goodness of god, will not pardon the half. For when with tears & weeping thou comest unto him, he will give thee all or nothing. Now if it were so that God reserveth one part of the sins, for to be punished in Purgatory, as you do affirm, it should follow that God worketh not but half with his servants, the which none can say, without blasphemy: For the works of God are perfect. Wherefore ³if thou have not Eusebius any better refuge in the holy Scripture then thou hast yet showed forth, thou hast lost thy cause by the sentence of God, and of all his servants: yea of Antichrist himself whom the virtue of God compelleth to confess the trueth, against his own nose and in spite of his teeth, as the devils did confess Jesus Christ