This obiection is of greater force, than you are able to withstande. For the same God, that hath called him to the one place, to plant his true Religion there, hath also called him to the other, that he may doe the like euen as he did the Apostles, Prophets and Euangelistes, and pastors also, who haue béen euen immediatly after the Apo∣stles time transferred from one place to another, for the greater commoditie of the Church: Neither can it be proued that any man should be so tyed to one place, that he may not be transferred to another to profit more.
It is true that the deuill most greuously assaulteth those, which haue embraced the truth, bicause now they are become his professed enimyes, & openly withstand hym: But they are sufficiently armed with faith, and with ye word of God, so that although they be tempted, yet can they not be ouercome. The other that remaine in ignorance he wholy possesseth, and bicause they haue yéelded themselues vnto him, he doth suffer them to be quiet: therfore to deliuer such out of his seruitude and bondage, and so to arme & instruct them, that they are not only able to withstand, but to put to flight the deuill also, must of necessitie be both the hardest, and the most acceptable worke vnto God: except you will say that it is more commendable to helpe him, who is sufficiently ar∣med, and able to resist, than him that is altogether vnarmed, and as it were vnder the foote of his enimy. Certainly the most acceptable worke vnto God is, to conuert sinners vnto repentance, and to heale such as be sicke, & therfore Christ himselfe sayd, that he* 1.1 came to seeke that which was lost: and the parable of the lost grote, and of the Prodigall* 1.2 sonne doth with might & maine ouerthrow your sayings: so do the whole dealings of the Apostles, and the whole course of the Scriptures.