wisedome and goodnesse, would oblige himselfe to reward men with euerlasting happines, for imbra∣cing the mysteries of Christian Fayth, which may once proue false, and to adiudge men to endles tor∣ments, for adhering to the contrary, which in the end may be found true, if Christian Fayth can possi∣bly be false, as false it may be, if it be but probable.
9. Neuer could any doctrine be offered to the son∣nes of Adam more plausible, then that our beliefe of Heauen and Hell is but an opinion in it selfe, and no way certayne, concerning things of another world; whereas worldly pleasures, are in present possession and certaine. If the greatest certainty wherewith all Christians hitherto haue belieued their fayth to a∣bound, hath not byn able to stay the cariere of mens licenciousnesse; what shall we now expect, but, that flattered by this doctrine, they, who before did runne, will now fly, after the Idols of whatsoeuer may ap∣peare to their soules or bodies, obiects of delight?
10. No lesse liberty doth this doctrine affoard for belieuing, then it doth for liuing, giuing scope to A∣postasyes, and endlesse changes of Religions, as this man's fourefold alteration makes manifest, if all be true which is reported of him. In which inconstancy notwithstanding he seemes to glory, stiling it his Constancy in following that way to heauen, which for the present seemes to him the most probable. But of this more hereafter.
11. I will doe him the fauour to suppose that he holds no Religion more certainly true then that of Christians, which yet to him being not certaine, what remaines in his persuasion and doctrine, but that