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

And pag. 20. He hath the like. And pag. 23 and 25. & passi•o, the like. And pag 20.30. He saith [Concl. 2. A serious sober outward Profession of the Faith, and true Christian Religion, together with a serious Profession of former sinful courses — a serious consideration of these things, as such, considered abstract•vely (abstractions simplici) from the work […] saving Grace, and heart-conversion, by true Repentance, & ⟨p. 22⟩Faith, is sufficient qualification in the Ecclesiastic Court to constitute a person sit matter to be received as a member of the visible Church, accounted [Greek or Hebrew], i. e. Among these that are within. If I be asked, what I mean by a serious Profession? I Answ. Such a Profession as hath in it, at least, a moral sincerity (as Divines are wont to distinguish) though happily, not always a supernatural sincerity, i. e. (that I may speak more plainly) which is not openly discernably simulate, histrionic, scenical, and hypocritical, in that hypocrisy which is gross: but all circumstances being considered, by which ingenuity is estimate among men, giving credit one to another, there appears no reason, why the man may not, and ought not to be esteemed, as to the matter, to think and purpose as he speaketh, from whatsoever habitual principle it proceedeth, whether of saving Grace or Faith, or of faith historical, and conviction wrought by some common operation of the Spirit. A man that hath such a Profession as this, and desireth Church-Communion, the Church ought to receive him as a member. And all be it I deny not, but where there is just or probable ground of suspicion, that the Profession hath simulation and fraudulent dealing under it, as in one new come from an heretical Religion, or who hath been before a Persecutor of the Faith and Professors thereof: there may be a delay in prudence, and time taken to try and prove if he dealeth seriously and ingenuously — &c.

And pag. 20. He hath the like. And pag. 23 and 25. & passi•o, the like. And pag 20.30. He saith [Concl. 2. A serious sober outward Profession of the Faith, and true Christian Religion, together with a serious Profession of former sinfull courses — a serious consideration of these things, as such, considered abstract•vely (abstractions simplici) from the work 〈…〉 saving Grace, and heart-conversion, by true Repentance, &