Full and easy satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference…Full and easie satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference…

P. Is it a safe Religion which you your self describe? When no man can be sure that he rightly understandeth all the Scriptures? and when your believer is uncertain, even of Christianity it self? Let D. Judge whether this be a sure Religion.

R. The word of God is absolutely certain in it self; but that so much uncertainty may be in believers, I will make you to your shame confess your self, and recant these insinuations. Q. 1. Dare you say that all your Church, or any one man, even the Pope himself, doth understand all the Scripture? or can perfectly and infallibly translate each word? You dare not say it. Else why did he never once pretend to give us either an unerring Commentary or Translation? And why have you such great diversity of both? Q. 2. How much less dare you say that any of you perfectly understand all the Councils, which are the rest of your Religion? No nor that you have certainty ⟨p. 21⟩which are the true Copies of them all? else why do Caranza, Crab; Surius, Binnius, Nicolinus, &c. give give us such various Copies? And yet you confess the Scriptures to be Gods word, and with the Councils to contain your Religion. Q. 3. If God have promised salvation, to all that truly hold and practise the Essentials (the Baptismal Covenant) doth the difficulty of other points (in Genealogy, Chronology, History, by matters) either make our salvation ever the less certain, or any way impeach the word of God? What disgrace is it to a man that besides Head and Heart, he hath fingers, and toes, and nails and hair? No more is it to the Scripture, that as our entire Religion, it containeth even Integrals and Accidentals. Q. 4. And as to a Doubting Believer, I ask, Dare you say that all those were Infidels or in a state of damnation, who said,See the Roman Catech. where this is confessed, Cap. 1. q. 1. pag. 9. Lord increase our faith? or Lord we believe; help our unbelief? or to whom Christ said, Why are ye afraid O ye of little faith? or that said, Luk. 24. We trusted that this had been he that should have delivered Israel? Or if a man should doubt even of the Life to come, and yet his Faith be so much more powerful than his doubts, as that he resolveth to prefer his hopes of Heaven before all this world, and to seek it on the most self-denying terms, even to the laying down of life it self, are you sure that this man shall be damned? But this is the Course of peevish wranglers. To maintain their own opinions and put a face of certainty on their own conclusions, they stick not to damn almost all the world. For it will be no less, if all doubting believers must be damned.