How to do good to many, or, The public good is the Christians life…How to do good to many, or, The publick good is the Christians life…

He is a Christian that believeth Christ to be true God and true Man in one Person, and trusteth him as our only Redeemer by his Merits and Passion, and our Mediator in the Heavens, and obeyeth him as our Sovereign Lord, for pardon, for his Spirit and for Salvation. And as a Christian this man is to be loved and used, tho he have not so much skill in Metaphysics, as to know whether it be a proper speech to call Mary the Mother of God, or that one of the Trinity was crucified, or to know in what sense Christs Natures might be called One or Two, and in what sense he might be said to have One Will or Two Wills, One Operation or Two: And know not whether the tria Capitula were to be condemned; yea tho he could not define, or clearly tell what Hypostasis, persona, yea, or substantia signifieth in God; nor tell whether God of Gods be a proper Speech.

He is a Christian that beleiveth Christ to be true God and true Man in one Person, and trusteth him as our only Redeemer by his Merits and Passion, and our Mediator in the Heavens, and obeyeth him as our Soveragin Lord, for pardon, for his Spirit and for Salvation. And as a Christian this man is to be loved and used, tho he have not so much skill in Metaphysicks, as to know whether it be a proper speech to call Mary the Mother of God, or that one of the Trinity was crucified, or to know in what sense Christs Natures might be called One or Two, and in what sense he might be said to have One Will or Two Wills, One Operation or Two: And know not whether the tria Capitula were to be condemned; yea tho he could not define, or clearly tell what Hypostasis, persona, yea, or substantia signifieth in God; nor tell whether God of Gods be a proper Speech.

This Man is a Christian, tho he know not whether Patriarchal, and Metropolitical, and Diocesan Church forms, be according to the Will of Christ or against it; and whether symbolical signs in the Worship of God, may lawfully be devised and imposed by Men, and whether some doubtful words in Oaths and Subscriptions of Mens imposing, being unnecessary, be lawful, and how ⟨p. 23⟩far he may by them incur the guilt of perjury or deliberate lying: And tho he think that a Minister may preach and pray in fit words of his own, tho he read not a Sermon or prayer written for him by others, who think that no words but theirs should be offered to God or Man.