An wholesome antidotus or counter-poison, against the pestilent heresy and sect of the Anabaptists…An holsome antidotus or counter-poysen, agaynst the pestylent heresye and secte of the Anabaptistes…

Jo. Christ sayeth unto the Ives: If ye do not believe, ye shall dye, in your since, Ergo, unfaithfulness is a deadly sin or sin to death. And though a faithful believer, is without this sin, that is to say, without infidelity, yet he is not without vice or sickness, which he must be ware of always, lest he be drowned ⟨image 86⟩in sin. or soiled & defiled with the abominable filthiness of sins: & therefore it followeth in John: We do know, that all that is borne of god, sineth not: but he that is borne of god, doth keep himself, & the evil toucheth him not. So therefore the godly sineth not: & though he falleth by frailness, yet notwithstanding that malicious Satan can not catch him. For the diligent study & labour, that the godly doth take, in shunning & avoiding sin (that is to say faith) doth that sin is not imputed for sin. It is written in the .viii. Rom. That there is no condemnation unto them that be in christ, which do not walk after the flesh, but after the spirit. Else saint John doth say in the same self epistle: If we do say, we have no sin, we deceive our selves, & truth is not ⟨image 86⟩in us. If we do confess our sins god is both faithful & righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from our iniquity. If we do say, we have no sin, we make him a liar, & his word, is not in us. There be many such places every where in the scriptures. David doth cry out: O Lord, do not enter into judgement, with thy servant, for in thy sight, no man shall be justified. And again, if thou lookest extremely upon our since, o lord who is able to abide it? In the xliii. of Esa. the lord doth speak thus, by the Prophet, unto the Ives, which did glorify & boast them selves in the righteousness of the law. I am he, I am he (saith y• lord) that taketh away thine iniquities, for mine own sake, & will not remember thy sins. ⟨image 87⟩Bring me into remembrance, let us be judged together, tell forth if thou hast any thing, to justify thy self. Thy father hath sinned first, and thine interpreters have gone out of the way. None of the most holy men were ever without sin, which thing manifestly appeareth, in Adam, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Aaron `David Josiah, Hezekiah, Peter, Paul, Matew. &c. Therefore Job speaketh truly.