A Reply to his Chap. 77.

CHAP. 74. A Reply to his Chap. 77.

Discusser.

AS for. Calvin, Beza, and Aretius, mine Answer is, since matter of fact and opinion are barely related by the Answerer without their grounds, (whose grounds notwithstanding, in this Book are Answered) If Paul himself were joined with them, yea or an Angel from Heaven, bringing any other Rule, then what the Lord Jesus hath once delivered, we have Pauls Conclusion, and Resolution, peremptory, and dreadful, Gal. 1.8.

AS for. Calvine, Beza, and Aretius, mine Answer is, since matter of fact and opinion are barely related by the Answerer without their grounds, (whose grounds notwithstanding, in this Booke are Answered) If Paul himselfe were joyned with them, yea or an Angel from Heaven, bringing any other Rule, then what the Lord Jesus hath once delivered, wee have Paules Conclusion, and Resolution, peremptory, and dreadfull, Gal. 1.8.

Defender.

That I only quoted the Names of those blessed men of God, It was partly because it was enough to counterpoise the Names of Authors alleged by the Letter against the Truth, by the Names of greater and more holy men of God, for the Truth: partly also, because if I had quoted their grounds, I must have transcribed their whole Books of the Argument. Calvins discourse about it, against Servetus, is bound up in his Opuscula. Beza his. Book de Haceticis a Magistratù puniendis, is bound up also in his Opuscula: but both of them too large by me to be copied, and to strong and accurate, by them of the adverse part to be refuted. Aretius, a like solid writer, may sooner be shifted off, then sifted to Bran. But it seemeth, if Paul himself had joined with them in the like fullness of expressions, himself should rather have been accursed by the Discusser, then his Doctrine accepted. Which seemeth to me a strange both prejudice, and prefidence met together. For since God laid his charge upon Magistrates in the Old-Testament, to punish Seducers, & the Lord Jesus never took this charge off in the New-Testament,