Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity…

Wherein observe two parts.

First, A true believers challenge in these words, Who shall condemn? Secondly the person in whose name the challenge is made, which is Christs, It is Christ that is dead, &c. For though the believer is weak in himself: yet in the rock Christ, strong and invincible.

First, A true beleevers challenge in these words, Who shall condemn? Secondly the person in whose name the challenge is made, which is Christs, It is Christ that is dead, &c. For though the beleever is weak in himself: yet in the rock Christ, strong and invincible.

For the first, vi•. The true believers challenge, it is the more to be noted, because it is laid down by way of interrogation: For that hath with it a strong confidence and a kind of victorious triumph, as if he said, there is none at all that can condemn though they may go about it. It is not intorrogatio rogantis or dubitantis, but instantis •t triumph•is, It is not a question of one asking by way of doubt, but of one earnest in affirming, and Triumphing. So that the point then is this.

For the first, vi•. The true beleevers challenge, it is the more to be noted, because it is laid down by way of interogation: For that hath with it a strong confidence and a kind of victorious triumph, as if he said, there is none at all that can condemn though they may go about it. It is not intorrogatio rogantis or dubitantis, but instantis •t triumph•is, It is not a question of one asking by way of doubt, but of one earnest in affirming, and Triumphing. So that the point then is this.