Certain disputations of right to sacraments, and the true nature of visible Christianity defending…

And yet when we play not the part of Instructors, and preparers, but of Administrators of Gods Ordinances, then we must take heed of exacting more as necessary, then is indeed necessary; and in difficult Cases, when the difficulty lieth in the Darkness of the persons heart, and you doubt, by reason of ⟨p. 18⟩the scantness of his expressions, whether he believe as he speaketh, we must give credit to his own words, as far as reason will permit, and to judge the best, though we may fear the worst: and this will be our Duty; and if we should be deceived, it will not prove our sin, but his that makes the false profession: And this leadeth me up to the next part of my Task; which is, having thus explained the Nature of the requisite Profession, to prove the Affirmative of the Question

And yet when we play not the part of Instructors, and preparers, but of Administrators of Gods Ordinances, then we must take heed of exacting more as necessary, then is indeed necessary; and in difficult Cases, when the difficulty lyeth in the Darkness of the persons heart, and you doubt, by reason of ⟨p. 18⟩the scantness of his expressions, whether he believe as he speaketh, we must give credit to his own words, as far as reason will permit, and to judge the best, though we may fear the worst: and this will be our Duty; and if we should be deceived, it will not prove our sin, but his that makes the false profession: And this leadeth me up to the next part of my Task; which is, having thus explained the Nature of the requisite Profession, to prove the Affi•mative of the Question

THESIS Ministers m•y admit persons into the visible Church of Christ, by Baptism, upon the bare Verbal Profession of the true Christian saving faith (such as before described) without staying for or searching after any further Evidences of sincerity, (ordinarily, and as of necessity to this end.) This Proposition I prove (in short) by these Arguments following.