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§. 5. When any came in so great error as that the Church scarce knew whether it was an Essential part of faith and baptism that was denied, it made the Controversy hard about their re-baptizing. Many thought that the Photinians and Arians denying Christs Godhead as of the same substance with the father, denied an essential article, and were to be re-baptized if they so entered at first: Our Socinians are much worse, that deny Christs Godhead in a fuller sense. And how doth he believe in Christ that believeth him not to be God, which is most eminently essential to him?

§. 5. When any came in so great errour as that the Church scarce knew whether it was an Essential part of faith and baptism that was denyed, it made the Controversie hard about their re-baptizing. Many thought that the Photinians and Arians denying Christs Godhead as of the same substance with the father, denyed an essential article, and were to be re-baptized if they so entred at first: Our Socinians are much worse, that deny Christs Godhead in a fuller sence. And how doth he believe in Christ that believeth him not to be God, which is most eminently essential to him?

§. 6. They that are over-bold in altering Christs terms of Church Union and Communion, making them less or more or other, if they knew what they do, would find themselves more concerned in these controversies of baptizing and re-baptizing, and consequently greater corrupters, than they have thought.

§. 7. To think that Church Union is impossible is to deny that there is any Church, and consequently any Christ. To think that necessary Concord in Communion is impossible, is so great a disparagement to the Church, as tempteth men by vilifying it to doubt of Christianity: For if Christians cannot live in Unity of faith and love and converse, what is their Christianity? And such despair of Concord will make men suspend all endeavours to attain it: For Despair useth no means.