7. Secondly, this is proved by the preaching of the apostles. For they were the proclaimers of his kingdom; neither did Christ send them to preach aught but the kingdom of God (Luke ix. 2: Acts x. 42). And what they did after Christ’s ascension, may be understood by the accusation which was brought against them (Acts xvii. 6-7): _They drew Jason_, saith St. Luke, _and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, these are the men that have turned the world upside down, and are come hither also, whom Jason hath received; and these all do contrary to the decrees of Cæsar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus_. It appears also, what the subject of the apostle’s sermon was, out of these words (Acts xvii. 2-3): _Opening and alleging out of the Scriptures_ (to wit, of the Old Testament) _that Christ must needs have suffered and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus is the Christ_. [Sidenote: By the easiness of Christian religion.] 8. Thirdly, by the places, in which the easiness of those things, which are required by Christ to the attaining of salvation, is declared. For if an internal assent of the mind were necessarily required to the truth of all and each proposition, which this day is controverted about the Christian faith, or by divers churches is diversely defined; there would be nothing more difficult than the Christian religion. And how then would that be true (Matth. xi. 30): _My yoke is easy and my burden light_; and that (Matth. xviii. 6): _little ones do believe in him_; and that (1 Cor. i. 21): _it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching, to save those that believe_? Or how was the thief hanging on the cross sufficiently instructed to salvation, the confession of whose faith was contained in these words: _Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom_? Or how could St. Paul himself, from an enemy, so soon become a doctor of Christians? [Sidenote: By this, that it is the foundation of faith.]