The XIIII. errour.
Grace is quite extinguished, or rather vtterly lost by any mortall sinne.
The Confutation.
I. The word of God doth manifestly declare that it is farre otherwise, Ioh. 6. All that the Father giueth me, shall come vnto me: and him that commeth vnto me, I cast not away. Math. 16.16. Thou art Peter, and vpon this rocke will I build my Church: so that the gates of hell shall not preuaile against it. 1. Ioh. 2.19. They went out from vs, but they were not of vs: for if they had beene of vs, they would haue continued with vs. Rom. 5. 1. Beeing therefore iustified we haue peace with God. Now how could this be true, if he that was before iustified, could any way quite fall from grace, and so perish. II. The elect after their very grieuous fal∣lings from God forthwith repented them of their sinnes, as we may see in the example of Dauid, Peter, &c. the which argueth that they had not quite fal∣len from grace, and lost the spirit of God. III. If grace be once vtterly lost, then the ingraffing of that partie into Christ is quite abolished: therefore for such as repent; there must needs succeed a second new ingraffing into Christ: & then it will also follow, that they must of necessitie be baptized anew, which is absurd to thinke.
But for all this, we denie not but grace may in part, and for a time be lost, to the end that the faithfull may thereby acknowledge and know their weaknes, and for it be humbled: but that there is any totall or finall falling from grace, we vtterly denie.