ANd as they sinne not, so they erre not. And on the other side as they sinne, so they erre: but neuer vnto death and damnation. For they neuer sinne of purpose nor hold any errour maliciously, sinnyng against the holy ghost, but of weakenesse & infirmitie. As good obedient childrē, though they loue their fathers commaundements, yet breake them oft, by the reason of their weakenesse. And as they can not yeld them selues bond vnto sinne, to * 1.1 serue it: euē so they can not erre in any thyng that should be agaynst the pro∣mises which are in Christ. And in o∣ther thynges their errours be not vn∣to damnation, though they be neuer so great, because they hold them not ma∣liciously. As now, if some when they read in the new Testament of Christs brethren, would thinke that they were our Ladyes children after the byrth of Christ, because they know not the vse of speakyng of the Scripture or of the Hebrues, how that ••ye kinsinē be cal∣led brethren, or happely they might be Iosephes children, by some first wife, neither can haue any to teach him for tyrāny that is so great, yet could it not hurte him, though he dyed therein, be∣cause it hurteth not the redēption that is in Christes bloud. For though she had none but Christ, I am therfore ne∣uer the more saued, neither yet ye lesse, though she had had. And in such lyke * 1.2 an hundred that plucke not a mans faith from Christ, they might erre, and yet be neuerthelesse saued no though the contrary were written in the Gos∣pell. For as in other sinnes, as soone as they be rebuked, they repent: euen so here, assoone as they were better taught, they should immediatly know¦ledge their errour and not resiste.
But they which maliciously mayn∣teine opinions agaynst the Scripture, or that yt cā not be proued by the Scrip¦ture, or such as make no matter vnto the Scripture and saluation that is in Christ whether they be true or no, and for the blind zeale of them make sectes, breakyng yt vnitie of Christes Church, for whose sake they ought to suffer all thyng, and rise agaynst their neigh∣bours, whom they ought to loue as * 1.3 them selues, to sle•• them (such men I say are fallen from Christ and make an Idole of their opinions. For except they put trust in such opinions and thought them necessarie vnto saluatiō, or with a cankred conscience went a∣bout to deceaue, for some filthy pur∣pose, they would neuer breake the vni∣tie of fayth or yet slea their brethren. Now is this a playne conclusion, that both they yt trust in their own works,