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

1. They feign a New Christian faith to themselves, viz. A faith that is short of Justifying; which Scripture and the ⟨p. 192⟩Church of God have taken to be but a preparatory to the Christian faith subjectively, or but a common part of it objectively considered: so that before there was but one Christian faith, and now they have made two. 2. And so before, there was but one sort of real serious or sincere Christians, consisting of such as had that real Christian faith: and now they have found out another sort of them, that hold another sort of faith. 3. So have they feigned a new Baptism; for the Old Baptism was for Remission of sin, and Burial and Resurrection wi•h Jesus Christ, and to engraft men into the Church with is the body of Christ, upon the profession of a saving faith: but the new feigned ends of Baptism are far different. 4. And they have feigned also a new kind of Church: For the Church of Christs constitution is but one, which is called visible from mens Profession, and invisible from the faith professed. But they have made a Church which consisteth of a third sort of members: that is, of men that neither have saving faith, nor profess it, but only have or profess to have a faith of a lower orb. 5. To this end they have confounded the Church and the Porch, the Vineyard and the adjacent part of the Wilderness: those that heretofore were but Catechumeni or men in preparation for the Church, are now brought into it: and are annumerated to true Christians, before they once profess themselves such, and that upon a lower profession. 6 And hereby also the two sorts of Teaching are confounded, which Christ distinguisheth, Mat. 28.19, 20. That teaching which draweth men to Christ, and maketh them Disciples, and that which instructeth them when they are his Disciples; that which persuadeth them to receive Christ Jesus the Lord, and that which persuadeth them accordingly to walk in him. For they take him for a Disciple, that is but learning to be a Disciple, merely because he submitteth to learn, and hath learned before some preparatory truths; though yet he be not made a Disciple indeed, nor profess so to be.

1. They feign a New Christian faith to themselves, viz. A faith that is short of Justifying; which Scripture and the ⟨p. 192⟩