And euen so ought yow to Iudge of youre partye, and to defend youre sentence not of obstinacye, but by the reason of scriptures which cause you so to take yt. And so ought neyther partye to dispyse other, for eche seaketh the glory of God, and the true vnderstondynge of the scripture. This was the foundacyon of my fyrste treatyse that he hathe left vnshaken, which ys agreate argument that yt is very true. For els hys pregnant witte could not haue passed yt so cleane over. But wolde haue assayled yt with some sophisticall cavillacyon which by hys paynted poetrye he myght so haue colloured, that at the least he myght make the ignoraunt some apparēce of truthe, as he hathe done agaynste the resydue of my fyrste treatyse, which neuertheles ys true ād shall so be proved. ¶And firste that it is none article of our faythe necessarye to be beleued vnder payne of dampnacyon, may thus be furder cōfyrmed. The same faithe shall saue vs whiche saued the old fathers before Christes incarnacyon: But they were not bounde vnder payne of dāpnacyon to beleue this poynte, therfore yt foloweth that we are not bounde therto vnder the payne of dampnacyon. The fyrste parte of myne argument ys proued by S. Austen ad Dardamum. And I dare boldly say almost in an .C. places more. For I thynke there be no proposicyon which he doth more often inculcate then thys, that the same faythe saved vs which saued our fathers. The secōde parte ys manyfest, that yt nedeth no probacyon. For how coulde they beleue that thynge which was neuer sayde nor done, and without the worde they coulde haue no faythe. Upon the truthe of these two partes muste the conclusyon neades folowe. Not withstōdynge they all ded eate Christes bodye and dronke hys bloode spirytually, although they had hym not presēt to their teth. And by that spirytuall eatynge (which is the fayth in hys body ād blode) were saued as well as we are. For assoone [Sidenote: Adam.] as our fore father Adam had transgressed Godes precepte, & was fallē vnder cōdēpnacyō, oure moste mercyfull father of hys gracyous favoure gaue hym the promyse of helthe and conforte, wherby as many as beleued yt, were saued frō the thraldome of their transgressyon. The worde and promyse was this. I shall put enmyte betwene thy sede and her sede, [Sidenote: Gene. 3.] that sede shalt treade the on the heade, and thou shall trede yt on the hele. In this promyse they had knowlege that Christe shulde destroye the devyll with all his power, ād delyuer hys faythfull from their synnes. And where he sayd that the devyl shulde treade yt on the hele, they vnderstode ryght well that the devyll shulde fynde the meanes by his wyles and wycked mynysters to put Christe to deathe. And they knewe that God was true, and wolde fulfyll hys promyse vnto them, and hartely longed after this sede, and so dede bothe eate hys bodye and drynke his bloode, acknowlegynge with infynyte thankes, that Christ shulde for their synnes