Full and easy satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference…Full and easie satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference…

D. But to deal freely with you, methinks their way of measuring out the Necessaries in Faith and Religion according to mens various parts and opportunities, seemeth to me more satisfactory than yours, who fix upon certain points (as the Baptismal Covenant) as Essentials. For there is great diversity of mens Capacities.

R. This cometh from confounding several Questions as if they were all one. 1. It is one Question, What is the Christian Religion? 2. ☞ It is another Question, Whether the Christian Religion be absolutely necessary to the salvation of all those to whom it was never competently revealed? 3. And it is another Question, Whether more than the Essentials of Christian Religion be not necessary ⟨p. 160⟩to the salvation of many who have opportunity to know more? Alas, what work doth Confusion make in the world! To the first, It is evident that as Mohammedanism is a thing which may be defined, so much more may Christianity: Who that writeth of the several Religions of the world, Ethnic, Jewish, Mahometan, and Christian, do not take them to be distinguishable and discernible? Especially when Christ hath summed up Christianity into a Covenant, and given it us in express words, and affixed a flat promise of salvation to the true Covenanters, and the Church hath ever called our Baptism, our Christening? Is Christianity Nothing? If Something, Why may it not be defined, and differenced from all false Religions? And if so, It hath its Essential Constitutive parts. All this is plain to Children that will see. 2. And then as to the second question, it concerneth not our Controversy at all. It is but Whether any Infidels may be saved? Or any that are no Christians? And if it could be proved, that any are saved that are no Christians, do you thereby prove that they are Christians, or members of the Christian Church? or that Christianity is not a Religion which may be defined? 3. And as to the third question, We are on all sides agreed in it, That they that have more than the naked Essentials of Christianity revealed to them aptly, are bound to believe more: Yea, it is hardly conceivable that any one should know and believe the Essentials only, and no more: It is not Essential to the Christian Covenant or Christianity to know that the Name of Christs Mother was Mary; or that Pontius Pilate was the man that condemned him; And if