A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, writtenA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written

The third point is the Propriety; Your faith. The faith of all is one, as it reflects on our Saviour Christ: yet every soul that will go to heaven, must have a particular faith in it self. All of us believe one thing, yet the act of thy faith cannot save my soul; it must be my own faith. No man can be saved by a common faith in any religion. Una fides cum reliquis Sanctis, tamen propria fides cujusque Sancti. For the substance, it hath a community with the rest of the Saints: for the availableness, it hath a propriety to every believer. One bird cannot fly to heaven with another birds wings. Now it is called Your faith two ways, Ex aequitate juris, ex proprietate usus. By the right and interest you have in it, and by your proper use of it.

The third point is the Proprietie; Your faith. The faith of all is one, as it reflects on our Saviour Christ: yet every soule that will goe to heaven, must have a particular faith in it selfe. All of us beleeve one thing, yet the act of thy faith cannot save my soule; it must be my owne faith. No man can be saved by a common faith in any religion. Vna fides cum reliquis Sanctis, tamen propria fides cujusque Sancti. For the substance, it hath a community with the rest of the Saints: for the availeablenesse, it hath a proprietie to every beleever. One bird cannot flie to heaven with another birds wings. Now it is called Your faith two wayes, Ex aequitate juris, ex proprietate usus. By the right and interest you have in it, and by your proper use of it.

1 Your faith, because you have a right and interest to this faith. As Saint Jude calls it the^b Common salvation, so it may be called the Common faith. If no Christian be excepted from the right of salvation by Christ, then none is excepted from the right of faith in Christ. The faith that God delivered to the Saints, is Your faith: take your handful out of this sheaf, your portion is in this common stock. It is Aequè pretiosa fides, saith our Apostle, vers, 1. Like precious faith: not appropriated to Peter or Paul only, the rest secluded; but common to all the Saints. Qui se excipit, se decipit: qui alium excipit, Christo injuriam facit. He that excepts himself, deceives himself: he that excepts others, doth wrong to Christ. There is a woe to such;