Isagoge in canonicas septem epistolas, qua (ut in Paulinis) compositionis oeconomia, et germana dispositio monstratur

he says, I have written to you briefly to exhort and testify that this is the true grace of God, in which you are established. Therefore, this is the opinion of the Apostle: In this religion concerning Christ, which you have already learned, you ought to be constant, and to adorn it with your life and morals as decorously as possible, which is undoubtedly to hope perfectly in the grace of God, and to acknowledge that this one is the true religion which pleases God. The heads of the proposition are two: the first is concerning the constancy to be shown in the accepted religion, this part he completes in the first chapter and it has almost two of its foundations. The first is that through this doctrine the highest benefits of God are offered to us. The second is that this doctrine agrees with the Prophets. For from these two it follows: therefore it is necessary to be constant in this doctrine, and to embrace it highly. The latter limb of the proposition deals