What should be preached to the people
Thesis LXXXI. These questions in particular are brought before ordinary Christians in homilies and sermons not only to no profit but often to great harm, since they plant scruples in simple minds that the skill and eloquence of the disputants cannot properly clear away afterwards.
So when these matters are spoken of, especially before the people, the safest course, and the one that best suits Christian prudence and sobriety, would be to keep to what Christian teachers agree on, which is also enough to shape piety and faith.
For example: whatever good is in us and is done by us is owed to God's grace; it is God who works all good in us; without Christ and the help of his Spirit we can do nothing at all in what furthers our eternal salvation; we have nothing that we have not received freely from God and could boast of over another; and so we must ask for God's grace in everything, and thank him for whatever we have done well and rightly.
Latin
LXXXI. Praesertim quaestiones illae apud plebem Christianam, in homiliis & concionibus, non tantum nullo cum fructu, sed maximo saepe cum damno proponuntur, dum simplicium animis injiciuntur varii scrupuli, quos disputantium ars & eloquentia satis postea discutere non potest. Proinde tutissimum esset, & Christianae prudentiae ac sobrietati maxime conveniens, dum de rebus istis sermo apud populum praecipue habetur, in iis consistere de quibus Christiani Doctores conveniunt, & quae sufficiunt quoque ad pietatem & fidem informandam. Qualia sunt quicquid boni nobis inest, & a nobis fit Divinae gratiae deberi. Deum esse qui omne bonum in nobis operatur. Sine Christo & spiritus illius auxilio in iis quae aeternam nostram salutem promovent, nihil nos quicquam posse. Nihil esse quod a Deo gratis non acceperimus, & de quo possimus supra alium gloriari. Adeoque teneri nos in omnibus Dei gratiam implorare, & si quid a nobis bene & recte factum fuerit, de eo illi gratias agere.