An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches

§. 24. The Texts that say, He that believeth not shall be damned, plainly refer to such as hear the Word to be believed, and speak of the Unbelief of what is revealed, and not of what is unrevealed.

§. 25. Rom. 10. saith no more, but that no man can believe in Christ without the Revelation of him by preaching or declaring; and that no man that heareth, can be saved without believing in him, nor no man saved at all without that Faith, which the Law that he is under, maketh necessary to Salvation. But if all were damned that believed not that this Jesus is personally the Christ, all before his Incarnation must be damned: But if not all before, then the same thing was never made necessary after to all that could not possibly hear of it.

§. 25. Rom. 10. saith no more, but that no man can believe in Christ without the Revelation of him by preaching or declaring; and that no man that heareth, can be saved without believing in him, nor no man saved at all without that Faith, which the Law that he is under, maketh necessary to Salvation. But if all were damned that believed not that this Iesus is personally the Christ, all before his Incarnation must be damned: But if not all before, then the same thing was never made necessary after to all that could not possibly hear of it.

§. 26. The same I say of Joh. 14. 6. No man cometh to the Father, but by me. 1. No man is reconciled ⟨p. 198⟩to God, and pardoned, and hath right to life (in all Ages of the World) but for the sake of the meritorious Sacrifice and Righteousness of Christ, as promised,