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

ignorance after the example of St. Paul, they imagine that there is no malice nor venom in those who err through simplicity, as one commonly says. Then afterwards he reproaches even more greatly those who, instead of recognizing with the Apostle the great grace of God which has called them to his knowledge, and of groaning over the faults committed by them and their superstitions of time past, when they were plunged into their idolatries and so wicked superstitions, speak of it only in mockery, and yet St. Paul declares in his person that these are enormous and inexcusable offenses before God.

That is what Calvin says and reproaches. And what do you conclude from that, Mr. Jesuit, in your monastic logic? That by the saying of Calvin his predecessors are damned. A conclusion very fitting: from which, on the contrary, I conclude pertinently that you are a very great ass and impudent if you do not know how to argue otherwise, seeing that Calvin speaks neither of his predecessors, nor of all those who know the Gospel, and that there is too great a difference (God be thanked) between an enormous and inexcusable sin before God, and the sin which alone is irremissible. If you do not admit this, what will become of your purgatoire purgatory? What will become of your pardons extending so far that, in the chancellery of your head of the Church, witness the taxes which are printed there, you tax the absolution for having killed father and mother (listen, poor slaves of this Antichrist) only at the sum of one ducat and five carolus.