tnputettion or Chri fi's R ghteo tf ns 54t is an open calumny. For the wifeft of them and thofe of whom it is hard to conceive, but that they ktaew the con- trary, as Bellarmine, Vhfquez, Suarez, do openly aver that Proteftant Writers deny all inherent Righteoufnefs 5 (Bel - larmine excepts Bucer and Chemnitius) Í that they maintain that men may be Paved, although they live in all manner of fin, that there is no more required of them, but that they believe that their fins are forgiven, and that whileft they do fo, although they give themfelves up unto the molt fenfual Vices. and Abominations, they may be affured of their .Sal- vation. Tenant ielligio potuit fnadere malorum.' So will' men out of a perverfe zeal to promote their own intereft in the Religion they profef; wilfully give up them - felves unto the worft of evils, fuch as falfè accufation and open calumny and of no other nature are there aífertions which none of the Writings or Preachings of thofe-who are fo charged, did ever give the leaft countenance unto. Whe' ther the forging and promulgation of filch impudent fal- fhoods, be an expedient to obtain Juflification by Works in the fight of God, they who continue in 'them had heft to confider. For mypart I fay again, as I fuppofe I have laid already, that it is all one to me what Religion men are of, who can juftifie themfelves in fuch courfes and proceedings. And for thofe among our felves who-are pleafed to make ufe of this Objection, they either -know -what the Doctrine is which they would oppofe, or -they do not. If they do not, the wife man tells them; that he who- anfwereth -a matter before he hear it, it is folly and fhame unto him. If they do under - fiand it,'itis.evidentthat they ufe not fincerity, but artifices, and falle pretenfes for advantage; in their handling of Sacred things, which is fcandalkus to Religion. Sodium fiercely ma-
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