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WE see all men, who at leastwise striue not to cast off all sense of humanitie, to im∣brace and professe some opinion of God and his wil, as also some manner of wor∣shipping him, partly drawen from nature her selfe, and partly by persuasion recea∣ued: which is it that they cal Religiō. Now albeit al wil easily grant that to be the true Religion, which hath beene deliuered by God himselfe, neither will they seem to haue come vnto that degree of impudency, as not to yeeld their assent vnto God when he speaketh of him∣selfe and of his owne wil: yet notwithstanding, which maie be that Religion deliuered from aboue, wil neuer be agreed vpon amongest men, vntil our Lord Iesus Christ returning to iudge the quick and dead, doe decide the controuersie. There are two opinions of Religion. The one deemeth that in euery Religion, which doth leade a man towardes God, saluation is to be found. The iust man shal liue by his faith, that is, euery man (as these men interpret it) shall liue by his faith, what maner so euer it be. But this opinion is not true: because there is but one true Religion: others are false, ly∣ing at variance with the true, according as it is said: He that beleeueth not in the Sonne, the wrath of God abideth on him. The other opinion thinketh (and that rightly) that that is the true Religion, in which God is truely worshipped, and that to be but one, & that in it onely men shal be saued. But the Church of God doth certainly know, and though all the Diuels and wicked ones stamp at it, doth professe that this is the alone true and wholesome doctrine of God and his worship, which God himselfe euen from the creation of man deliuered by his owne voice to our first fathers, and afterwards would haue to be contained in the scriptures by the Prophets and Apostles. Since then whatsoeuer we may affirme of God and the saluation of men, doth depend on the written word, we wil first consider these foure things as touching the Scripture, before wee come to make reci∣tall what our selues affirme.