Necessarie.
[proposition 1] COntrition without repentance is not effec∣tuall to the forgiuenesse of sinnes, vnlesse it rest vpon faith.
[proposition 2] If for the woorthinesse and desert of contriti∣on, we might obteine the forgiuenesse of sinnes, we should be alwaies doubtfull thereof.
[proposition 3] As touching the rest of good w•…•…ks, we are of the same mind, that they obteine the promises, so far as the holie scripture hath attributed vnto them, not of their owne woorthinesse or merit, but according as they are stirred vp by faith.
[proposition 4] If theft be punished by death; he that is guil∣tie cannot iustlie complaine, that he suffereth beyond his desert.
[proposition 5] Theft, by the iudgment of some of the fathers, before the lawe was giuen, was iudged woor∣thie of death.
[proposition 6] If a godlie Rhetorician, pleading for the de∣fense of innocents, doo mooue affections, he sin∣neth not.
[proposition 7] The vse of affections is good, so men direct them to the stirring vp of vertues.
[proposition 8] The church is not tied to certeine seats or suc∣cessions of bishops, as the Papists affirme it is.
[proposition 9] In these things, which belong not to the sub∣stance of faith, the apostles in the new testament otherwhile followe the interpretation of the se∣uentie, although it varie from the truth of the Hebrue.
[proposition 10] Magistrates in their Common weales ought to prouide, that idle persons be not suffered.
[proposition 11] Although in the holie scriptures there be an expresse commandement for labouring and working with the hands; yet the ministers of the word are not bound therevnto, sith they haue enough to doo in their owne office: the which al∣so we ••a••e, as touching them that prepare them∣selues to the holie ministerie.
[proposition 12] The ministers of the word, if they haue so plen∣tifullie the spirit of God, that they be not onelie able to discharge their function, but haue leisure that by their owne labour, they may mainteine themselues, or helpe others are bound to labor.
[proposition 13] When ministers doo take vpon them to labor with their hands, let them shun filthie gaine; and set them be ware of handie crafts, which may drawe them awaie from the holie ministerie.
[proposition 14] They which labor must beware of this; name∣lie, that they respect not gaine for it selfe, but the obedience of Gods commandement.
[proposition 15] We must not in such sort put confidence in the labor of our hands, as to thinke that God, if we be hindered from it, will forsake vs.
[proposition 16] They, which get their liuing by labour, doo al∣so vnderstand it to be the gift of God, that they may enioie their owne labors.