Of free justification

That I on the other side, Osorius may answer to these things, but in ¹a few words: If that were true, which you falsely say of Luther, perhaps you might gain some praise both of a Learned Orator, and an Honest Accuser. But now seeing he never so much as dreamed of these things, neither can you bring forth one word from so many of his Sayings and Deeds to maintain your unjust accusation; I say not in your words, Who hath been more absurd, who hath been more out of his wits than you since the Creation of Man? But if I may be allowed to say this, speaking very modestly, that you are too much forgetful, not only of your duty, but also of the argument, in which you are exercised and: whilst you are writing of Righteousness, you do so far against all Righteousness most basely bespatter and shamefully lash a Godly Man, a Servant of Christ, that never deserved ill at your hands, ⟨p. 40⟩with feigned Lies and Reproaches, and all kind of abuses; either through ignorance finding fault with the things you have not read, or wresting those things to a wrong Sense, which you are not willing to understand in a right Sense. What if the Eternal possession of Salvation must not be ²hoped for from any thing else but works of Righteousness, as chiefly you Osorius do teach, (that I may comprehend also Hosius, and your familiar Friend Andradius in the same Category! What hope can you have of your own Salvation from these works of yours; to wit, your most false Accusations, and reproachful Libels, in which, against Law and Right, breaking the bonds of all Righteousness, you vomit forth those lying slanders against your Neighbour, and that in the public Theatre of the World, for no valuable cause, nor for any true reason, nor upon any other account, but because perhaps you are stirred up with your own immoderate passion.

That I on the other side, Osorius may answer to these things, but in ¹a few words: If that were true, which you falsly say of Luther, perhaps you might gainsome praise both of a Learned Orator, and an Honest Accuser. But now seeing he never so much as dreamed of these things, neither can you bring forth one word from so many of his Sayings and Deeds to maintain your unjust accusation; I say not in your words, Who hath been more absurd, who hath been more out of his wits than you since the Creation of Man? But if I may be allowed to say this, speaking very modestly, that you are too much forgetful, not only of your duty, but also of the argument, in which you are exercised and: whilst you are writing of Righteousness, you do so far against all Righteousness most basely bespatter and shamefully lash a Godly Man, a Servant of Christ, that never deserved ill at your hands,