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3. Some turn to the Papists as apprehending their Ceremonious kind of Religion, to be an easier way to Heaven then ours: But if they knew themselves, they would know that it is a more solid and spiritual sort of food that their nature doth require, and a more searching Physic that must cure their diseases; and that shells and chaff will not feed, but choke and starve their souls.

3. Some turn to the Papists as apprehending their Ceremonious kind of Religion, to be an easier way to Heaven then ours: But if they knew themselves, they would know that it is a more solid and spiritual sort of food that their nature doth require, and a more searching Physick that must cure their diseases; and that shells and chaff will not feed, but choak and starve their souls.

4. All that turn Papists must believe, that they were unjustified and out of the Catholic Church before, and consequently void of •he Love of God, and special grace: For they receive it as one of the Romish Articles, that out of their Church there is no salvation. But if these persons were indeed be•ore ungodly, if they knew themselves, they would find that there is a greater matter necessary, then believing in the Pope, and •urning to that faction; even to turn to God ⟨p. 34⟩[…] ⟨p. 35⟩[…] ⟨p. 36⟩by faith in Christ, without which no opinions or profession can save them. But if they had the Love of God before, then they were Justified and in the Church before; and therefore Protestants are of the true Church, and it is not confined to the Roman subjects. So that if they knew this, they could not turn Papists without a palpable contradiction.