God suffereth the old heresies, which in times past troubled the church, to make a stir again in our days, to stir us up to diligence. The devil goeth about to destroy this article of our belief, knowing it to be the main prop and stay of our salvation. If we have not this knowledge of which St. Paul speaketh, what will become of us? We are all Adam’s children; and therefore accursed: we are in the bottomless pit of death. There is nothing but death and condemnation in us, until we know that God