The doubting conscience resolved. In answer to a (pretended) perplexing question, &c. Wherein is…

It is false which he saith of Anabaptists, that they urge the very letter of Scriptures more than the rest. For both Calvinists and Lutherans insist wholly upon the literal sense of Scripture, and more than the Anabaptist in case they (as formerly by this Author said) did ⟨p. 48⟩depend in dreams, for so do not Protestants but on Scripture only, and that according unto sense literal, not at all according to sense mystical, save only in case the sense mystical be expounded by some Apostle, and thereby made literal. 2. But herein this Authors ignorance discovers its self, that he confounds sense literal with the proper sense of the words. We acknowledge sense literal to comprehend sense Metaphorical as well as proper, and to stand in contradiction only to sense mystical: But in case we take that in a metaphorical sense which our adversaries in any point take in a sense proper, if we do not prove the sense wherein we take it, and disprove theirs by convincing Arguments, we will allow the liberty to reject our Tenet, and follow their own; for we desire to make our faith evident to the consciences of all opposites, and if they can ⟨p. 49⟩make their Tenets in like manner evident to us, we will renounce our own and embrace theirs. 3. And this Author speaks at random, and he knows not what, when he would have his Reader believe the Calvinists permit any to reason against the Scriptures; for by reason to clear the meaning of Scripture, is not, I trust, to reason against it, but for it rather, especially considering that by reason of Scripture only we dispute the meaning of any place.

It is false which he saith of Anabaptists, that they urge the very letter of Scriptures more than the rest. For both Calvinists and Lutherans insist wholly upon the literall sense of Scripture, and more than the Anabaptist in case they (as formerly by this Author said) did ⟨p. 48⟩depend in dreams, for so doe not Protestants but on Scripture only, and that according unto sense literall, not at all according to sense mysticall, save onely in case the sense mysticall be expounded by some Apostle, and thereby made literall. 2. But herein this Authors ignorance discovers its self, that hee confounds sense literall with the proper sense of the words. We acknowledge sense literall to comprehend sense Metaphoricall as well as proper, and to stand in contradiction onely to sense mysticall: But in case we take that in a metaphoricall sense which our adversaries in any point take in a sense proper, if we doe not prove the sense wherein we take it, and disprove theirs by convincing Arguments, we will allow the liberty to reject our Tenet, and follow their own; for we desire to make our faith evident to the consciences of all opposites, and if they can