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

The true conditions of admittance into the Church and state of Christianity are these.

First, A true belief in God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and a Devoting of our selves sincerely to Him, as our reconciled Father our Saviour, and our Sanctifier, in a resolved Covenant, or Consent, renouncing ⟨p. 51⟩the Devil, the world, and the flesh, (expressly or impliedly) is the whole and the only condition of our Communion with the Church mystical or the living body of Christ (which is called The Church, in the first and most famous sense.)

First, A true belief in God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and a Devoting of our selves sincerely to Him, as our reconciled Father our Saviour, and our Sanctifier, in a resolved Covenant, or Consent, renouncing ⟨p. 51⟩the Devil, the world, and the flesh, (expresly or impliedly) is the whole and the only condition of our Communion with the Church mystical or the living body of Christ (which is called The Church, in the first and most famous sense.)

Obj. If this must be wrought in us before we are in the mystical Church, then a state of holiness may be found in such, as are yet out of the body of Christ in the world: But if this be after our entrance into the Church, than less may sufficiently qualify us for admittance.

Obj. If this must be wrought in us before we are in the mystical Church, then a state of holiness may be found in such, as are yet out of the body of Christ in the world: But if this be after our entrance into the Church, than less may sufficiently qualifie us for admittance.