IESVIT.

And in the consequent words of the Apostle, so much insisted vpon, All Scripture inspired of God, is profita∣ble to teach, &c. And if Protestants could so metamor∣phise the word Profitable, as to make it signifie the same with the word Sufficient, which is very hard; yet were [ E] the Text much ouer-short, to prooue their intent, That Scripture alone is sufficient for euerie man, seeing the Apo∣stle speakes not of euerie man, but expressely of him who Page  42 is Homo Dei, the Man of God, that is, one alreadie [ A] fully instructed and firmely setled by Tradition in all the maine points of Christian Faith, and godly Life, such a one as Timothie was. The Scriptures for men in this manner afore taught, and grounded in Faith, are abun∣dantly sufficient, who will denie it? But this prooueth at the most the sufficiencie of the Scripture, ioyned with Tradition; not of Scripture alone, or of onely, onely, onely Scripture a, as Protestants Bookes in great Letters very [ B] earnestly affirme.