More reasons for the Christian religion and no reason against it, or, A second…

Secondly, And methinks you should easily grant at least, First, That Repentance and Holiness is far easier to them that have the Gospel, than to them that never heard it. Secondly, And that they are far more common. And so that far more Christians are holy and saved than of others. For, First, Tell me; If God should send an Angel from Heaven as aforesaid, with miraculous evidence of his mission, to call men to repentance and belief in God, and Glory, would it not be easier for those men to repent, than for others? Nay would not you the easilier believe in Christ your self if you had but such an Angel to confirm you? why then ⟨p. 115⟩should not the word of Christ, who by his Miracles, Resurrection and the donation of such a Spirit to his Servants, proved his mission from the Father, be a help to our Faith and Repentance. Especially when his word hath a self evidencing Light also in the Image and superscription of God upon it. Secondly, You will not deny but that the difference of common lower means, doth make Repentance much easier or harder to one than another. Take one man that is born in Brazil or Soldania or among any other savage People; or that is bred up in a Tavern, Ale-house or Whore-house, or Gaming house, among those that make a scorn of godliness; and take another that is bred up to Learning, Labour and Godliness, among them that by doctrine and example do honour and command a godly, righteous, sober life. And hath not one of these abundance more hinderances to his Repentance than the other. Thirdly, And will not sense and experience make you certain that the Christian part of the world, hath ⟨p. 116⟩more such helps than all the rest. Is there not more Reason, Learning, Sobriety, Doctrine, all sorts of Teaching there than among the rest. Were it but that Christianity hath furnished the World with more helps to repentance and Holiness, the case were clear. Fourthly, And a little acquaintance with the World, and the History of it, may fully satisfy you, that de facto, there are actually far more knowing, penitent, holy Persons among Christians than among any others. When therefore the fact it self is undeniable, and we see that more Souls are healed by Christ in the Church, than in the World without, what need we any greater evidence.

Secondly, And methinks you should easily grant at least, First, That Repentance and Holiness is far easier to them that have the Gospel, than to them that never heard it. Secondly, And that they are far more common. And so that far more Christians are holy and saved than of others. For, First, Tell me; If God should send an Angel from Heaven as aforesaid, with miraculous evidence of his mission, to call men to repentance and belief in God, and Glory, would it not be easier for those men to repent, than for others? Nay would not you the easilier believe in Christ your self if you had but such an Angel to confirm you? why then