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

Answ. 1. That serious Profession of true faith is to be taken by us as a probable Evidence of the thing Profest, till men forfeit their credit, I shall (God willing) prove anon from Scripture. And if I did not before stand to prove it from Scripture, I desire Mr. Blake, as he findeth cause, by the following evidence, to impute it either to my disability, or my modesty; If he find that I now prove it not, let him tell the world that I could not; (but let him not thence conclude that it is not true; for another may prove it, if I cannot): but if I now prove it, let him impute the former omission to my charity, which provoked me to hope, that with such as he (and so many as he here intimateth) it had not been necessary: nay, I thought it had been out of controversy with us.

Answ. 1. That serious Profession of true faith is to be taken by us as a probable Evidence of the thing Profest, till men forfeit their credit, I shall (God willing) prove anon from Scripture. And if I did not before stand to prove it from Scripture, I desire Mr. Blake, as he findeth cause, by the following evidence, to impute it either to my disability, or my modesty; If he find that I now prove it not, let him tell the world that I could not; (but let him not thence conclude that it is not true; for another may prove it, if I cannot): but if I now prove it, let him impute the former omission to my charity, which provoked me to hope, that with such as he (and so many as he here intimateth) it had not been necessary: nay, I thought it had been out of controversie with us.

2. If he yield that charity is to hope the best, Why not then to be put to it? Is it not put to it, when it must hope the best? Or is not this a contradiction?

3. What kind of holy Ordinance is this, wherein neither ⟨p. 7⟩