that worketh remission of our daily sinnes: & the meanes which apprehendeth and applieth the sayd cause vnto vs, they remayne alwaies one & perpetuall: besides which no other cause nor meanes is to be sought of man. So that to them that be repenting sinners & be in Christ Iesu there is no law to condemne them, though they haue deserued condemnation: but they are vnder a perpetual kingdome and a heauen full of grace and remission to couer their sins and not to impute their iniquities, through the promise of God in Christ Iesu our Lord.

MarginaliaThe Popes errours touching remission of sinnes detected.And therefore wicked and impious is the doctrine of them, fyrst which seeke any other cause of remission, then onely the bloud of our Sauiour. Secondly, which assigne any other meanes to apply the bloudsheding of Christ vnto vs, besides onely faith. Thirdly and especially, which so limite and restraine the eternall priuiledge of Christs passion, as though it serued but only for sinnes done without and before faith: and that the rest after Baptisme committed must be done away by consession, pardons, and satisfactory deedes. And al this riseth, because the true nature of the law, & of the Gospell is not knowen, nor the difference rightly considered betwene the times of the one, and of the other.MarginaliaWhat inconuenience riseth for lacke of distinction betweene the law and th Gospell.Neither againe doe they make any distinction betweene the malediction of the law, and vse of the law. And therfore whensoeuer they heare vs speake of the law (meanyng þ^e malediction of the law) to be abolished, therevpon they maliciously slaunder vs, as though we speak against the good exercises of the lawe, and giue liberty of fleshe to carnall men to liue as they list. Whereof more shalbe sayd (by the Lordes grace) as place and time shall hereafter require.

COncerning free will, as it may peraduenture in some case be admitted that men without the grace may doe some outward functions of the law, and keepe some outward obseruaunces or traditions: so as touching thinges spirituall & apperteining to saluation, the strength of man being not regenerate by grace, is so infirme and impotent that he can performe nothing, neither in dooing well nor willing well.MarginaliaErroneous doctrine of the papistes concerning free will.Who after he be regenerated by grace may worke and doe wel, but yet in such sort, that still remaineth notwithstanding a great imperfection of flesh, & a perpetuall repugnaunce betwene the flesh and spirit. And thus was the originall Church of the auncient Romanes first instructed. From whome see now howe farre this latter Church of Rome hath degenerated, which holdeth and affirmeth, that men without grace may performe the obedience of the law, & prepare themselues to receaue grace by working, so that those works may be meritorious, and of congruitie obteine grace.MarginaliaMeritum de congruo.Which grace once obteined, then men may (say they) perfectly performe the full obedience of the law, and accomplish those spirituall actions, and workes which God requireth, and so those workes, of cōdignitie, deserue euerlasting life. As for the infirmity which stul remaineth in nature,MarginaliaMeritum de incongruo.that they nothing regarde nor once speake of.

OVer and besides these vncatholike and almost vnchristian absurdities and defections from the Apostolicall faith aboue specified, let vs consider the maner of theyr Inuocation,MarginaliaFalse doctrine concerning inuocation.not to God alone, as they should, but to dead men saying: that saintes are to be called vpon tanquam mediatores intercessionis: as Mediatours of intercession:MarginaliaMediator of intercession.Christum vero tanquam mediatorem Salutis, and Christ as the Mediator of Saluation.MarginaliaMediator of saluation.And affirme moreouer, þ^t Christ was a Medyatour onely in time of his Passion. Which is repugnaunt to the wordes of S. Paule writing to the old Romanes chap. 8. where he speaking of the intercession of Christ: Which is (saith he) on the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for vs, &c.MarginaliaChrist a continuall Mediator, by the doctrine of S. Paule. Rom. 8.And if Christ be a Mediatour of saluation, what needeth then any other intercession of the Saintes for other sutes?MarginaliaChrist onely being our Mediator of saluation, what needeth any other Mediation of Sainctes?for saluation being once had what can we require more? or what lacketh he more to be obtained of the Saintes, which is sure to be saued only by Christ? And yet in their Catholicke deuotions: why doe they teach vs thus to pray to the blessed virgine: Salua omnes qui te glorificant, i. Saue all them that glorifie thee, &c. if saluation onely belong to Christ?MarginaliaSaluation falsely attributed to the blessed Virgine.vnles they study of purpose to seeme contrary to themselues.

Hetherto also perteineth the worshipping of reliques, and the false adoration of Sacramentes,MarginaliaIdolatrous adoration of Reliques and Sacramentes. that is, the outward signes of the things signified, cōtrary to the 7. principle before. page. 24. Adde to this alsoMarginaliaProphanation of the Lordes Supper.the prophanati-on of the Lordes Supper, contrary to the vse for which it was ordeined, in reseruing it after the Communion ministred, in setting it to sale for money, and falsely perswading both them selues and other, that the Priest doth merite both to him selfe that saith, and to him that heareth,MarginaliaFalse meriting by Masses.Ex opere operato, sine bono motu vtentis, &c. That is, Onely by the meere doing of the worke, though the partie that vseth the same, hath no good motion in him. &c.

AS touching Sacramentes, their doctrine likewise is corrupt and erroneus.MarginaliaFalse doctrine touching Sacramentes.

1. First they erre falsely in the number. For where the institution of Christ ordeineth but two, they (contrary to the fourth principle aboue prefixed) haue added to the prescription of the Lords worde, fiue other Sacraments.

2. Secondly, in the cause finall they erre. For where the word hath ordeined those Sacraments to excite our faith, and to giue vs admonitions of spiritual things: they contrariwise doe teach that the Sacramentes doe not onely stirre vp faith, but also that they auayle and are effectuall without faith, Ex opere operato, sine bono motu vtentis &c. as is to be founde in Thom. Aquine, Scotus, Catharinus, and other moe.

3. Thirdly, in the operation & effect of the Sacramentes they faile:MarginaliaThe number, Cause finall, The operation.where the contrary to the minde of the Scriptures, doe say, that they giue grace & not onely do signifie but also conteine and exhibite that which they signifie, to wytte grace and saluation.

4. Fourthly, they erre also in Application,MarginaliaThe application of Sacraments.applying their Sacramentes both to the quicke and the dead, to thē also that be absent, to remission of sinnes, and releasing of payne. &c.

In the Sacrament of Baptisme they are to be reprooued,MarginaliaErrours and abuses in Baptisme.not onely for adding to the simple wordes of Christs institution, diuers other newfound rites & phantasies of men: but also where the vse of the olde Church of Rome was onely to baptise men, they Baptise also Belles,MarginaliaBaptising of Belles.and applye the wordes of Baptisme to water, fire, candels, stockes, and stones. &c.

But especially in the Supper of the Lord their doctrine most filthely swarueth from the right minde of the Scripture,MarginaliaFalse doctrine of the Popes Churche concerning the Lordes Supper. all order, reason, and fashion, most worthy to be exployded out of all Christen Churches. Touching þ^e which Sacrament, the first errour is their Idolatrous abuse by worshipping, adoring, sensing, knocking and kneelyng vnto it, in reseruing also and carying the same about in pompe and procession in townes and fieldes.MarginaliaIdolatry cōmitted to the Sacrament.Secondlye also in the substance thereof their teaching is monstruous, leauing there no substance of bread and wine to remayne, but onely the reall body and bloud of Christ, putting no difference betweene calling, and making. Because Christ called bread, his body therfore, say they, he made it his body; and so of a wholesome Sacramēt, make a perilous Idole,MarginaliaThe Sacrament turned to an Idole.& that which the old Church of Rome did euer take to be a mistery, they turne into a blind miste of meere accidences to bleare the peoples eies,MarginaliaChaūging. making them beleeue they see that they see not: & not to see þ^t which they see: & to worship a thing made, for their maker, a creature for their creator:MarginaliaWorshiping.and that was threshed out of a wheaten sheffe they set vp in the Church, and worship for a Sauiour: and when they haue worshipped him, then they offer him to his father: and when they haue offered him then they eate him vp, or els close him fast in a pixe. Where if he corrupt & putrifie before he be eaten, then they burne him to pouder & ashes.MarginaliaOffering, Eating, Burning the body of Christ in the Sacrament, of the Altar.And notwithstanding they know wel by the scriptures, that the body of christ can neuer corrupt and putrifie, yet for all this corruption, will they needes make it the body of Christ, and burne all them which beleeue not that, which is against true Christian beleefe.

WHat order and rule S. Paule hath set for mariage in his Epistle to the Corinthians it is manifest. Wheras he preferreth single life in such as haue the gift of continence, before the maried state, so againe in such as haue not the gift he preferreth the coupled life before the other: willing euery such one to haue his wife because of fornication.MarginaliaAbsurdities and errours of the popes Churche touching Matrimony 1. Cor. 7.Furthermore, how the said Apostle aloweth a Byshop to be the husband of one wife (so he excede not to the maner of the Iewes, which were permitted to haue many) & how vehemently he reproueth them that restraine mariage, his letters to Timothy do record.Marginalia1. Tim. 3. 1. Tim. 4.Moreouer, what degres be permitted by the law of God to mary, in the booke of Leu.