Gildas Salvianus: The Reformed Pastor

I extend this rule both to Doctrine and Life E. G. If a Libertine preach for Free-grace, do you preach it up more effectually, then he: be much upon it, and make it more glorious on right grounds, then ⟨p. 475⟩he can do on his wrong. If on the like pretences, he magnify the Grace of Love, and (in order to cry down fear, and humiliation) be all for living in pure Love to God: do not contradict him in the assertive, but only in the negative and destructive part; but outgo him, and preach up the Love of God, with its motives and effects, more fully and effectually then he can do, on the corrupt grounds on which he doth proceed: Or else you will make all the silly people believe that this is the difference between you, that he is for Free-Grace and the Love of God, and you are against it: For if you dwell not upon it in your preaching as well as he, they will not take notice of a short concession of profession. So if an Enthusiast do talk all of the Holy-Ghost, and the light, and witness, and Law within us: Fall you upon that subject too, & do that well which they did ill; and preach up the office of the Holy-Ghost, his indwelling and operations, and the light, and testimony, and Law within us, better then they. This is the most effectual way of settling your people against their seductions. So if you be assaulted by Pelagians; if they make a long story to prove that God is not the Author of sin; do you fall upon the proof of it too: If they plead for Free-will, do you plead for that Free-will which we have (the natural liberty, which none deny, consisting in a self-determining power, and supposing actual indetermination) and deny only that Liberty which the will hath not: (that is, 1. Either a freedom from Gods Government. 2. Or from the necessary guidance of the Intellect, and Moral force of the object. 3. Or that true Spiritual, Ethical freedom from vicious inclinations, which consisteth in the Right ⟨p. 476⟩Disposition of the will: though the sanctified indeed have this in part; and that predominantly.) So if any Pelagian or Semi-Pelagian, will go about industriously to prove mans power (or rather impotency) to will or do evil; do it as effectually as he: For this is indeed but to prove a man a sinner, under pretence of proving him free, or at least to prove him defectible (if it be not the ill inclination, but the possibility of sinning that they defend:

I extend this rule both to Doctrine and Life E. G. If a Libertine preach for Free-grace, do you preach it up more effectually, then he: be much upon it, and make it more glorious on right grounds, then