Proeve vant ware ende valsche gheloove, ... / Sebastianus Castellio ; Uyt 't Lat. overgh. d...

you have proven, is that God does not command what cannot happen. For I had previously been made to understand (as one now also commonly hears and teaches) that God’s commandments could not be obeyed. Which realization (to confess the truth to you, Diederick) had made me so sluggish to obey, that I had never in my days, with all my might, applied my diligence to obedience.
What it is that the human is saved by through faith.

Died. This also happened to me previously, friend Lodewyck, nor could I ever earnestly apply myself to obedience until I believed that one could obey. And thereby I truly learned to understand the power of faith, for faith compels a person to an intention and will to obey. Once the power granted by God is gathered toward such an intention, it results in the person doing what he believed he could do, and thus, by being obedient, he is saved, just as he perished before by being disobedient. But it is too little to believe that one can obey God, unless one also knows the medium through which one can obey God, without which obedience no one can be saved. I would very much like, Lodewyck, for you to realize that our, and all other peoples’, disputations are in vain (to say nothing harsher) if they do not lead us to obedience and to the new man. Lod. Those things are true, O Diederick. Therefore, so that I may receive benefit from our conversation,