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3. In Acts 2.41, 42, &c. The many thousands were added to the Church, were such as received gladly the doctrine of saving Faith and Repentance, and continued in the Apostles doctrine, and fellowship, and breaking of bread and Prayer: and so far contemned the world as to fell all, and make it common: And doubtless no man continued in those ways, (of doctrine, fellowship, prayer, &c.) without the profession of saving Faith & Repentance; for the very use of these is such a profession. Of which saith Calvin in Act. 2.42. [Quaerimus ergò veram Christi ecclesiam: Hìc nobis ad vivum depictum est ejus Imago: Ac initium quidem facit à doctrinâ quae veluti ecclesiae anima est) not as barely heard, but as professed or Received) Nec quamlibet doctrinam nominat, sed Apostolorum; hoc est quam per ipsorum manus filius ⟨p. 161⟩Dei tradiderat: Ergo ubicunque personat pura vox Evangelii, ubi in ejus profession manent homines, ubi in ordinario ejus auditu ad profectum se exercent, illic indubiè est Ecclesia, &c. Quare non temere haec quatuor rece•set Lucas, quum describere vult nobis ritè constitutum ecclesiae statum. Et nos ad hunc ordinem eniti convenit, si cupimus verè censeri Ecclesia coram Deo & Angelis, non inane tantum ejus nomen apud homines jactare.] And ver. 47. It is said that the Lord added daily to the Church such as should be saved.] Obj. It saith not that all shall be saved that are added to the Church. Answ. But it describeth them that were added to the Church, viz. that were such as should be saved; or as Beza yielded to another reading (and so Grotius and many others,) such as saved themselves from that untoward Generation, [quisese quotidie servandos recipiebant in Ecclesiam.]

3. In Acts 2.41, 42, &c. The many thousands were added to the Church, were such as received gladly the doctrine of saving Faith and Repentance, and continued in the Apostles doctrine, and fellowship, and breaking of bread and Prayer: and so far contemned the world as to fell all, and make it common: And doubtless no man continued in those wayes, (of doctrine, fellowship, prayer, &c.) without the profession of saving Faith & Repentance; for the very use of these is such a profession. Of which saith Calvin in