Catholic communion defended against both extremes, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ...…Catholick communion defended against both extreams, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ...…

XXVIII. As it belongs to self-government to choose our own Diet, and Clothes, and Wives, and Physicians, (though we may be restrained from doing public hurt on such pretences;) And it belongs to Family Government to educate our own Children, and choose their Tutors, Callings, Wives, &c. so it more nearly belongs to self-government to choose the most safe and profitable means of our own Salvation, which no man may forbid us; and to avoid that which is pernicious or hurtful; and to Family-Government to do the like for our Children.

XXVIII. As it belongs to self-government to choose our own Dyet, and Cloaths, and Wives, and Physicians, (thô we may be restrained from doing publick hurt on such pretences;) And it belongs to Family Government to educate our own Children, and choose their Tutors, Callings, Wives, &c. so it more nearly belongs to self-government to choose the most safe and profitable means of our own Salvation, which no man may forbid us; and to avoid that which is pernicious or hurtful; and to Family-Government to do the like for our Children.

XXIX. It is false Doctrine of those late Writers who tell us, that only Sacraments sanctify or give right to Salvation: The whole Tenor of the Gospel tells us that men are brought to Faith and Repentance, and to be Christians, and Godly men, and by Faith to be justified, by the Preaching of the Gospel: and that Gods word is his appointed means of Salvation, which his Ministers must preach skilfully, instantly, in season and out of season, to that End: And if the Gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost.

XXIX. It is false Doctrine of those late Writers who tell us, that only Sacraments sanctifie or give right to Salvation: The whole Tenor of the Gospel tells us that men are brought to Faith and Repentance, and to be Christians, and Godly men, and by Faith to be justified, by the Preaching of the Gospel: and that Gods word is his appointed means of Salvation, which his Ministers must preach skilfully, instantly, in season and out of season, to that End: And if the Gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost.