Of justification four disputations clearing and amicably defending the truth against the unnecessary oppositions…

Object. And do you think that we can any better tell when we have all that are Essential? Or doth every weak Christian believe all the twenty Articles that you mentioned at first?

Answ. 1. We can better know what is Revealed then whats unrevealed. The Scripture tells us what faith in Christ is; but not what one or two acts do Justify, excluding all other as Works. Divines have often defined Faith; but I know not that any hath defined any such one act, as thus exalted above the rest of the Essence of Faith. If we could not tell what is essential to Faith, we could not tell what faith is. 2. The twenty Objects of Assent before mentioned are not all Articles or material Objects▪ the second is the formal Object. And of the rest, unless the Fifth [Believing that Christ was conceived by the Holy Ghost, and born of a Virgin] may be excepted (which I dare not affirm) I know not of one that's not essential to Christianity. And I think if we had Heretics among us that denied Christ to be conceived by the Holy Ghost, we should scarce take them for Christians. But that man that shall deny or not believe that Christ is God, that he is Man▪ that he was no sinner, that he dyed, and that for our sins, and that he was a Sacrifice or Ransom for us, and that he Rose ⟨p. 418⟩again, is Glorified, and will judge us: that he hath offered us a pardon of sin; that there will be a Resurrection of the body, and life Everlasting by this our Redeemer, I cannot see how he can be a Christian. And for the number of Articles, • left out much of the ancient Creed it self, (the Belief in God the Father, Creator, &c. in the Holy Ghost: the Article of the Catholic Church, the Communion of Saints, of Christs burial, Descent into Hell, and more.) And yet do you think this too big to be essential to Christian Faith? If so, tell not any Heretic that denieth any one of these, that he denieth an Essential Article of our faith.

Answ. 1. We can better know what is Revealed then whats unrevealed. The Scripture tells us what faith in Christ is; but not what one or two acts do Justifie, excluding all other as Works. Divines have often defined Faith; but I know not that any hath defined any such one act, as thus exalted above the rest of the Essence of Faith. If we covld not tell what is essential to Faith, we could not tell what faith is. 2. The twenty Objects of Assent before mentioned are not all Articles or material Objects the second is the formal Object. And of the rest, unless the Fifth [Believing that Christ was conceived by the Holy Ghost, and born of a Virgin] may be excepted (which I dare not affirm) I know not of one thats not essential to Christianity. And I think if we had Hereticks among us that denyed Christ to be conceived by the Holy Ghost, we should scarce take them for Christians. But that man that shall deny or not believe that Christ is God, that he is Man that he was no sinner, that he dyed, and that for our sins, and that he was a Sacrifice or Ransom for us, and that he Rose