150 ZDe Poo? e J~ anofamíïp 15ooh. you had more reafon for your Religion than he thought anyofyou had had : And that the truth is you had the Scripture on your fide, and while he dilutedwith you on Scripture principlesyou were too hardfor him ! But though he was loth to tell youfo, he liked the Papifs better, who fet not fo much by Scripture, and when a man bath finned, if he confefs to the Priefi, they abfolve him. Tea rather than believe that none but fuck Godly people could be faved, and rather than live fo114,0 a life, he would not believe that the Scripture was the word of God. P. Alas, how the Rebellious heart of man !lands out againft the Law and Grace of God I As for the Pa- pifts, Iaírnre you they confefs all the Scriptures to be the word of God, and of certain truth, as well as we ; And they will deny never a word of that which' I per- fwaded you to confent to. They differ from us in this, that they take irr more Books into the Canonical Scri- pture than we do ; And they fay that all that is in their Scripture and ours, is not Religion enough for us ; but we muff have a great deal more, which they call Tra- dition. See then the ignorance of thefe men : That becaufe they thinkwe make them too much work, they wild turn to them that make them much more. Though. I confefs their additions confift fo, much in words and ceremonies and bodily exercife, that fleflh and blood can the more eafilybear ir. When the Papifls difpute with us,they would make men believe that our Reli- gion is too loofe and favoured] the fieffit, and that theirs is far more flri& and holy ; And yet our Senfualifts tornPapifûs to (cape the ftri&nefs ofour Religion. And as for their pardons and abfolurions,, I allure you their own Doc°crine is that they profit and fave none but the truly Penitent And even their Gregory the feventh
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