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These are also Engines of the Enemy to batter the Peace and Comfort of your soul; He knows that it is cheerful Obedience with a confidence of Christs Merits and Mercies that God Accepteth: And therefore if he cannot hinder a poor soul from setting upon Duty, he will hinder him if he can by these scruples from a cheerful and prosperous progress. ⟨p. 371⟩First, if he can, he will take in scruples about the Truth of his Religion, and showing him the many opinions that are in the world, he will labour to bring the poor Christian to a loss. Or else he will assault him by the men of some particular Sect, to draw him to that party, and so by corrupting his Judgement to break his Peace: or at least to trouble his head, and divert his thoughts from God, by tedious Disputes. The Papists will tell him that they are the only true Catholic Church (as if they had g•t a Monopoly or Patent for Religion, and had confined Christ to themselves) who are such notorious abusers of him. And as if all the Churches of Greece, Ethiopia and the rest of the world were unchurched by Christ to humour Master Pope, though they be far more in Number, and many of them sounder in doctrine then the Romanists are; Those of other parties will do the like, each one to draw him to their own way. And the Devil would make him believe that there are as many Religions as there be odd Opinions: when, alas, the Christian Religion is one, and but one, consisting, for the doctrinals, in those fundamentals contained in our Creed: and mens lesser erroneous opinions are but the scabs that adhere to their Religion: ⟨p. 372⟩Only the Church of Rome is a very Leper, whose infectious disease doth compel us to avoid her company: (As for any sort of men that deny the Fundamentals, I will not call them by the name of Christians) So also in Duties of Worship Satan will be casting in Scruples. If they should hear the Word, he will cause them to be scrupling the calling of the Minister, or something in his doctrine, to discourage them. If they should Dedicate their Children to Christ in the Baptismal Covenant, he will be raising scruples about the Lawfulness of Baptizing Infants:

These are also Engines of the Enemy to batter the Peace and Comfort of your soul; He knows that it is chearful Obedience with a confidence of Christs Merits and Mercies that God Accepteth: And therefore if he cannot hinder a poor soul from setting upon Duty, he will hinder him if he can by these scruples from a chearful and prosperous progress.