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

But because this is the thing that will be denied, I add further. 1. Actions are capable of signifying a mans mind as well as words: though not ordinarily so soon, or easily, yet some Actions do; yea, and much more certainly. 2. God plainly tells us of some, that profess that they know God, yet in works they deny him: so that works can speak as plain as words, and deny God, and unsay what a deceitful tongue hath said. 3. If these persons in question do not thus deny Christ by their works, or do not Profess, to be no Christians, then either it is because ungodliness is consistent with Christianity, or doth not comprehend or imply Infidelity, or else because the [Notoriousness] of this ungodliness is no Profession. The first cannot be said: For 1. As Godliness in a Christian sense comprehendeth Christianity, ⟨p. 276⟩and even the true acknowledgement of the God-head it self; so ungodliness containeth the disowning of God and the refusing of all true Love of him, or seeking him as our End, and it compriseth in it the refusal of Christ to bring us back to God, and of the Spirit to conform our souls and lives to his Will. As therefore God is the Ultimate End, and Christ as Mediator but the means or way; and as loving God is a more excellent duty than believing in Christ in it self considered, so ungodliness which is contrary to the Love of God, is a greater sin than unbelief in it self, as to Jesus Christ the Mediator: yea and ever containeth this unbelief as its second and lower part, though it be denominated from the opposition to God, as the greater part of the sin. 2. However no man will deny but that they are concomitant, and that every ungodly man is an unbeliever. 3. Yea as ungodliness is contrary to our subjection to the Lord Redeemer, it is a real part of Infidelity it self. I may well conclude therefore that to be Notoriously ungodly, is to be Notoriously no Christian, but an Unbeliever.

But because this is the thing that will be denyed, I add further. 1. Actions are capable of signifying a mans mind as well as words: though not ordinarily so soon, or easily, yet some Actions do; yea, and much more certainly. 2. God plainly tels us of some, that profess that they know God, yet in works they deny him: so that works can speak as plain as words, and deny God, and unsay what a deceitful tongue hath said. 3. If these persons in question do not thus deny Christ by their works, or do not Profess, to be no Christians, then either it is because ungodliness is consistent with Christianity, or doth not comprehend or imply Infidelity, or else because the [Notoriousness] of this ungodliness is no Profession. The first cannot be said: For 1. As Godliness in a Christian sense comprehendeth Christianity,