Response aux cinq premieres et principales demandes de F. Jean Hay, moine jesuite, aux ministres escossois

in most of the world the tares of which it is spoken in Matthew 13.

Furthermore, as to the rest of your demand, whether those who preceded this happy Christian reformation (which you falsely call Calvinist) are damned perpetually to the fire of hell or not: we answer you that it is for you to usurp and practice this tyranny of anathematizing those whom you see fit. But as for us, it is enough for us to condemn the false religion, leaving to God the judgment against the persons in particular: to whom alone belongs this authority. Knowing also that it is well within his power to convert the sinner, whether in doctrine or in morals, at the very last breath of his life.

And as for the two whom you name, calling one of them, by mockery, a Baker, and the other an Apostate and Necromancer:
We answer you as to the first, that truly you resemble those who reproached Jesus Christ that he was a carpenter and the son of a carpenter (Matthew 13:55 and Mark 6:3) and the Apostles that they were laymen and without letters, and having not studied in their schools (Acts 4:13). But if it is necessary, according to the commandment of the son of God, to judge the tree according to its fruits, truly we