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CHAP. XI. The Conclusion of the first Book: The Causes of Popery.

R. I Have now made plain to you, 1. What the Protestants Religion is, (or at least my own, and all that I persuade you or any other to embrace.) 2. And also that it is granted to be all true by the generality of the Papists (as is explained and proved.) 3. And I have told you, by an enumeration of some particulars, why I am not a Papist, and why I do dissuade you from it. 4. And I have made good my first charge, in the point of Transubstantiation, if any thing in the world can be proved. The second I shall leave till another time, viz. To show you how far their Religion (as Popish) is from Infallible Certainty; and what horrid confusion is among them; and how they have done much to promote Infidelity in the world, by building Religion upon some notorious untruths, and upon a multitude of utter uncertainties. Though I doubt not but among them there are many true Christians, who practically resolve their faith into the surer evidences of Divine Revelation, yet I shall clearly prove to you, that all those whose practical faith is no surer or better, than the notional opinions of their Divines will allow, have no certain faith or Religion at all: And what impudency is it to make men believe, that there is no certainty of Religion to be had, but in their way, who build their Religion upon such a multitude of uncertainties and certain falsehoods, as will amaze you when I come to open them to you, viz. that ever so ⟨p. 153⟩many Learned men, and persons of all ranks, can be induced so to jest in the matters of their salvation. And if I be not by death or other greater work prevented, I hope in order to make good all the rest of the Charges before mentioned, which are our Reasons against the Popish way of Religion. In the mean time tell me what you think of that which is already said.