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COniunctio distrahendorum•• a ioynyng together of those thin∣ges which should be disseuered, and either to bee applied to the thinges that go before, or to the thyn∣ges that folowe after.
Here this Aduerbe (nowe) if it had
ben referred to the first point which is as ye se in this woorde (letters) & the point afterward made, whē this worde (nowe) had bene put to it, al had bene well: but because the worde (nowe) is other wise placed, and referred to the next sentēce, (which is now hath lear∣ned them) it is a false Argument, be∣cause this worde (nowe) should be re∣ferred to the first poinct, as thus.
Whosoeuer knoweth letters now, hath learned them,
A Grāmarian knoweth letters now
Ergo a Grammarian hath learned them.
And so this Argumēt is good beyng thus placed•• but though this subtiltie seme childishe•• yet olde babes haue v∣sed it, euen in the weightiest cause of our redemptiō, and thought therin to foile the godly, reasonyng in iest after this sort, & yet meanyng good earne••••.
Faith, without workes, doth iustify
Faith, without workes, is a deade faith:
Ergo a deade faith doth iustifie.
Here, one may se a false packing, for in the first Propositiō, faith is seueral, and referred to the last woorde of the same Proposition, which is (doth iu∣stifie) in the second Proposition faith is referred to the .ij. wordes (without workes.) so that the same faith is not ment in the seconde Propositiō, that is mēt in the first, and the reason is, that woordes are ioyned together, whiche should not be so ioyned, for now there are .iiij. termes, whereas by the rules of Logique, there shoulde be but thre, (faith) is one, (doth iustifie) is the se∣conde, (faith without workes) is the third, (a dead faith) is ye fourth terme. And the reason that there be .iiij. is, that faith is first seuerally considered, which neuer wāteth workes folowing her, as frute declaryng what the tree is, not that the frute doth purchace iu∣stification, but rather geueth a token yt by faith it self, where of such workes do spryng, iustificaciō is atteyned. In the second Proposition, there is men∣cioned a deade faith, a faith without workes, which faith the deuill himself
hath, where as if the Argument ware true, there shoulde be none other faith considered in the second Proposition, then was rehersed, and mencioned in the first Proposition. I haue labou∣red the rather at large, to make this matter more plaine to the ignoraunt, not that it so muche neded, for the eua∣sion is easie of it selfe, and this Argu∣ment is of no greater weight, then the other aboue rehersed were.