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The
fiate
ofthe
quef
iorabout the
certanatie
ofeleEien.
137
he might
bone
bee
healed,
forthen
their
cures
and confe-
tluentiie
their
gaines
were
at
an
end
:
but
they
hold
him in
fufpenfe,
and
increafe his
difcafe
of
doubting,
applying
thereunto
poyfons in
Read
of
falues,
whereby at
lag
his
wound
is
made defperate.
Thou
cant} not(vv
ill
they
fay)
at-
mine
unto
any
certaine
aflùrance
ofthine
ele
&lion,
for
that
were fond prefumption
;
but
thou.art
to
hope well
:
-and
that
thou maig
confirme
thy hope,
thou mug
make vowes
and
goe
on
pilgrimage,to
introcate
acid
offer'vnto thefe
and thefe
faints,
thou
tnufl
doe
thefe
workes
of
fupererogation,
build
fuch
a
Monaflcry,repaire
fuch
a
Church,giue
fo
much
mony
to
fuch
a
Cloifler, buy
thefe
Indulgences,wherby thou tnaili
receiue pardon for thy
hones
;
and for more furety
fake,thou
!halt at thy death bequeath
fo
much
monie.
to the Priefls;
for
Maffes,Trentals and
Dirges, that
if
it
happen
thou
go
in-
to Purgatorie, thou
mai(rfpeedelie be dciiuered.
But
all
this
while
they
fpeake
not
a word
of
Gods
vndeferued grace
and
free
elec`
lion,
not
a
fyllable
of
Chrifls death and
fatisfaC`
lion
for
our
finnes;no,this were
too
foueraigne
a
falue,and
would
toofoone
heale
the wounded
confcience, and
fo
marre
the
market ofthefe mount
-
bankes, making
their
Vowes;
Pilgri-
mages,
Maffes,
Dirges, Indulgences,
and
other trumperie-
ware
not worth the cheapning.
Séc`
2
Butlet
vs
confider
the
fate
ofthe
queflion
betweene
vs
`'
2nd
Satan,
with
his
Do6lors
and
Prodlors, whom
he
feeth
7"
it
.
with worldly
riches to;pleade
his
cauf
..
We
hold
that aman
t
n[,
ccñe
the
trulyconuerted:intlued with
alit
elyfaith'andfanaified,m_ay
chriftian
and
ordinarily
bee
affured
that
hee
is
the
child ofGdd_,elealed
to
Satan
with his
faluation
:
but
they
affirme
that it
is
prefinnption for
fuch
to
a/nßanu.
haue any
certaine
affiirance
hereof,
vnleffe
it be
by
extraordi-
nary reuelation
;
he
may
hope
ind.eede
that
his
ele&ed
and
!hall
bee faued,
but
this
hope
muff
bee tempered
with
fore,.
and
mixt
with doubting
;
and this doubting;
=they
call
humi-
htie,
which they doe
not
account
an
infirmitie,
but
rather
a
vertue which
doth commend their faith,efleeming
firme
of
--
furance
to
be
but
hereticall
confidence
and damnable
pre
-
funaption,and pronouncing him
accurfed in
their
counfcll
of
Trent,
7N110
afiirmeth
)5
we
ar.e
to beleeue
without doubting
the