_Answer_ 2. He doth not here speak of Christ properly, as he is Redeemer, nor of the redemption of his blood, but of that right, whereby masters chalenge their servants, as having bought them; which may be thus shewed: 1. Here is no mention of Christ as being Lord properly, but Master. For in the Greek it is δεσπώτης, which is properly, a Master in respect of a servant, not κώριος, Lord. And these two names are clearly distinguished, _Iude_ verse 4. where the same thing is spoken of the same false teachers: there they are said to deny their _Dominum & herum_, Lord and master; although he may be called their _Herus_, _Master_, he is not properly called their _Dominus_, _Lord_. Then againe, the Lord is not said to have redeemed all men, but only to have bought them: now although the word ἀγορώζω, to buy, be sometimes used in the same sense that the other is, yet it is not alwayes so. _Answer_ 3. The comparison here is plainly made betwixt the false teachers and the false Prophets, ♦betwixt the visible Church and the people of Israel; for the Lord is said to have bought those men in the same sense, that he is said to have redeemed and delivered all the people of Israel; that is, as he delivered them out of Egypt, and challenged them to himselfe in a peculiar manner, that by a solemne covenant they should be his servants; so also all those that give their names unto the Church, he may in this respect be said to have bought, as a Master, that they should serve him for ever. To deny the Lord is, not to acknowledge God or Christ for the Lord, _Matthew 10.32,33._ to confesse and to deny are made contrary one to another, _Luke 12.8,9._ The reason is, because it hath once professed the name of the Lord, and afterwards departs from that profession, it is all one as if he did plainly say, that he would no longer be a servant of that Lord. For this denying is twofold, either verball or reall. A verball denying was in _Peter_, a reall denying is in all those that after they have made profession of the faith, return unto a profane life, _1 Timothy 5.8._ _2 Timothy 3.5._ The denying in this place is properly meant of a reall denying. For the description of these men doth rather expresse their profane courses, then their open renouncing of Christ. ♦ “bewixt” replaced with “betwixt” Doctrine 3. _It is a damnable impiety to deny Christ either in word or deed._