An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches

§. 3. As Knowledge cometh in by slow degree• ▪ so there are as many degrees or differences of it, in the World, as there are Men; it being not probable that any two men on Earth have just the same apprehensions and degrees of Knowledge; but that ⟨p. 3⟩all mens mental Complexions differ far more than their Visages do. So that if the same degree were •he measure of necessary Church-Concord, and •alvation, there should but one in the World be ••e Church or be saved. The question then is not, What measure is desirable, but what is necessary to Church-Unity and Communion, and to Salvation. And what God will do with those that have not the Gospel, and are not of the Christian Church, but only believe that God is, and that he is the Re••rder of them that […]tly seek him, and that in every Nation do fear God, and work righteousness] belongeth not to our present question; but only what is necessary to the Christian State and Hope.

§. 3. As Knowledg cometh in by slow degree• ▪ so there are as many degrees or differences of it, in the World, as there are Men; it being not probeble that any two men on Earth have just the same apprehensions and degrees of Knowledg; but that ⟨p. 3⟩all mens mental Complexions differ far more than their Vis•ges do. So that if the same degree were •he measure of necessary Church-Concord, and •alvation, there should but one in the World be ••e Church or be saved. The question then is not, What measure is desireable, but what is necessary to Church-Unity and Communion, and to Salvation. And what God will do with those that have not the Gospel, and are not of the Christian Church, but only believe that God is, and that he is the Rerder of them that tly seek him, and that in every Nation do fear God, and work righteousness] belongeth not to our present question; but only what is necessary to the Christian State and Hope.