An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches

§. 4. 2. They consider their impossibility of being saved: For it is not only morally (by Vice) but naturally impossible to believe that which was never heard, read or understood: So that their Damnation seemeth unavoidable, especially to such as live in the vast Countries of America, and much of Africa and Asia, that are quite out of the reach of any Instructions for the Christian Faith.

§. 5. 3. And lastly, they consider the goodness and mercifulness of God, declared in his Word, and in his great and manifold mercies to all the World, and that he would have a righteous man to be merciful even to his Beast, much more to the Bodies of Men, and most of all to their Souls, and that our Rule and Motive is, Be merciful as your Heavenly Father is merciful.

§. 6. And they think that the contrary-minded, by over-doing, are the greatest Hinderers of the Christian Faith, and Promoters of Infidelity, while they make it seem so contrary to God's own Attributes, and to humane Interest, and to be a Doctrine not of glad but of saddest tidings to Mankind, viz. That none shall be saved that hear not the Gospel, when it is few comparatively that ever heard it or can hear it.

§. 6. And they think that the contrary-minded, by over-doing, are the greatest Hinderers of the Christian Faith, and Promoters of Infidelity, while they make it seem so contrary to God's own Attributes, and to humane Interest, and to be a Doctrine not of glad but of saddest tydings to Mankind, viz. That none shall be saved that hear not the Gospel, when it is few comparatively that ever heard it or can hear it.