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

4. Another qualification pleaded necessary and sufficient to the ends expressed in the question, is, [A Profession of a saving Faith] which is it that we are to defend.

5. A fifth claim is laid upon the pretended sufficiency of a Faith short of Justifying. But you will perhaps say, what faith is that? Those words tell us what Faith it is not, viz. It is not justifying faith, but they tell us not what faith •t is.] To which I must say, I know not my self, nor can I learn of all the writings of those that go that way, so perplexed and confounded, or uncertain are they, saying sometime one thing, and sometime another. But I shall have a fitter opportunity to enquire further into their mind or words anon.

5. A fifth claim is laid upon the pretended sufficiency of a Faith short of Justifying. But you will perhaps say, what faith is that? Those words tell us what Faith it is not, viz. It is not justifying faith, but they tel us not what faith •t is.] To which I must say, I know not my self, nor can I learn of all the writings of those that go that way, so perplexed and confounded, or uncertain are they, saying sometime one thing, and sometime another. But I shall have a fitter opportunity to enquire further into their mind or words anon.

6. Another claim is laid upon the pretended sufficiency of the Profession of a faith short of that by which we are justified. I say, the Profession as distinct from that faith it self, which the former claim made mention of. Some other there are, that yet go lower, and think we may Baptize any that consent to be Baptized, though they profess no faith at all, nor their Parents, nor pro-Parents neither. And there have been so some foolish as to think that it is a work of charity to catch them and Baptize them, whether they will or not. But it is not our present business to deal with these.