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…

And yet it is not like that any man should come to the Essentials of Christianity by any such way, as should acquaint him with no one of these, or any point besides the said Essentials. And yet it is certain for all this, that he that truly receiveth the Essentials, and is true to the Baptismal Covenant, shall be saved, whatsoever else he want: But it is as true, that he that Receiveth the Essentials, will (from the same principles and obligations) receive more, when it is aptly notified to him: And he that truly Covenanteth, will honestly keep the Covenant he maketh; which bindeth him still to learn of Christ. But if any man be saved without the Essentials, he must be saved without Christianity.

D. But you know that they distinguish of faith Explicit and Implicit: He may be Implicitly a Christian that believeth not the Essentials Explicitly; as long as he believeth that which would infer them; if they were made known to him to be indeed the Word of God.

D. But you know that they distinguish of faith Explicite and Implicite: He may be Implicitely a Christian that believeth not the Essentials Explicitely; as long as he believeth that which would infer them; if they were made known to him to be indeed the Word of God.

R. Thus do Words abuse and cheat the ignorant: Could you but read their own Dr. Holden before cited in his Analys. fid. you would find this distinction justly rendered by him shameful and ridiculous, according to their common sense and use of it; and the truer sense delivered and vindicated. An Implicit faith or Knowledge we confess to be true, as it is opposed to 1. A distinct, or 2. To a well-expressed faith or Knowledge. For it is Implicit, ☞ 1. As to the Object, when a man knoweth the whole matter, but not ⟨p. 162⟩