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XXV. Reason: Every honest godly Protestant may be as sure that Popery is false, as he is that he is himself sincere, and Loveth God, and is truly willing to obey him. And no man can turn Papist, without self-contradiction, who is a true Christian, and an honest man: For by turning Papist he confesseth himself to be before a false-hearted hypocrite, who neither Loved God, nor sincerely desired to obey him, nor was true to his Baptismal Covenant. For it is a part of Popery to believe that none are in a state of salvation, but the Subjects of the Pope, or members of the Papal Church; And consequently that no others have true Faith, Repentance ⟨p. 73⟩or Love to God: Or else that God is false in promising salvation, to all that have true Faith, Repentance and Love to God. All therefore that know their own hearts to be truly devoted to God, are safe from Popery; And seeing it is agreed on both sides, that none can or ought to turn Papists but ungodly hypocrites (or Knaves) no wonder if such are deluded by the most palpable deceits, and forsaken of God whom they perfidiously forsook.

I will name you no more: If I make these, or any one of these good (as I undertake to prove them all), you will see that I refuse not my self to be a Papist without sufficient cause.

And yet by this charge you will see that I am none of their extreme adversaries: I pass by abundance of Doctrinal differences, wherein by many they are most deeply charged: Not as Justifying them against all or most so charged on them, but 1. As giving you those Reasons which most move my self, and which I am most able to make good, and leaving every one to his proper work: 2. And as one that have certainly found out, that in many doctrinals seeming to be the matter of our widest difference, we are thought by many to differ much more than we do; 1. The difference lying most in Words, and Logical Notions, and various ways of mens expressing their conceptions: 2. And the animosity of men engaged in Parties and Interests against each other, causing most to take all in the worst sense, and to make each other seem far more erroneous than they are, and to turn differing names into damnable heresies: And 3. Few men having Will and Skill to state controversies aright, and cut off mistaken seeming differences: 4. And few having honesty and self-denial