The cure of church-divisions, or, Directions for weak Christians to keep them from being…

Thirdly, And if ever Baptism had been well understood, by these objectors, the essentials of Christianity had been understood. Hath not Christ himself determined who they be that shall be admitted into the Church and numbered with Christians, in the very tenor of the Baptismal Covenant? And did not the Church take the Creed to be sufficient for its proper use, which was to be the matter of the Christian profession, as to the Articles of faith to be believed? And yet are we now to seek in the end of the world, what Christianity is, and what are the essentials of our faith, and who is to be received as a professor of Christianity.

Thirdly, And if ever Baptism had been well understood, by these objectors, the essentials of Christianity had been understood. Hath not Christ himself determined who they be that shall be admitted into the Church and numbered with Christians, in the very tenor of the Baptismal Covenant? And did not the Church take the Creed to be sufficient for its proper use, which was to be the matter of the Christian profession, as to the Articles of faith to be believed? And yet are we now to seek in the end of the world, what Christianity is, and what are the essentials of our faith, and who is to be received as a professor of Christian•ty.

But this is a subject more largely to be handled if Rulers will permit it: And in the mean time because it is not the Magistrates but the Pastors that I am now speaking to, I shall pretermit the most which is to be said, and only acquaint you in the conclusion, that one of these following ways must be chosen.

But this is a subject more largely to be handled if Rulers will permit it: And in the mean time because it is not the Magistrates but the Pastors that I am now speaking to, I shall pretermit the most which is to be said, and only acquaint you in the conclusion, that one of these following wayes must be chosen.