Which is the true church? the whole Christian world, as headed only by Christ…

And note, I pray you, that it is the present Church which they use to approach to for necessary resolution; and the Recentiors are more the present Church than the Ancients. And according to these, 1. Their Church is confessedly doubtful or unknown as to most or multitudes of members. 2. And note; that their Articles being but two, That God is, and that he rewardeth works, all the common Heathens of the world, and all the Mahometans, are of the Papists Faith and Church, according to this opinion. 3. But mark, Reader, another desperate corruption, That Baptism must concur with these two articles. O horrid corruption of Christianity it self! Is this antiquity and tradition? Did the Christian Church use to baptize men that believed neither in Jesus Christ nor the Holy Ghost, if they did but believe a God and a Rewarder? Do you baptize such in your Church? I suppose even Pope Stephen himself would have been for the re-baptizing of such.

And note, I pray you, that it is the present Church which they use to approach to for necessary resolution; and the Recentiors are more the present Church than the Ancients. And according to these, 1. Their Church is confessedly doubtful or unknown as to most or multitudes of members. 2. And note; that their Articles being but two, That God is, and that he rewardeth works, all the common Heathens of the world, and all the Mahometans, are of the Papists Faith and Church, according to this opinion. 3. But mark, Reader, another desperate corruption, That Baptism must concur with these two articles. O horrid corruption of Christianity it self! Is this antiquity and tradition? Did the Christian Church use to baptize men that believed neither in Jesus Christ nor the Holy Ghost, if they did but believe a God and a Rewarder? Do you baptize such in your Church? I suppose even Pope Stephen himself would have been for the re-baptining of such.

Reader, if one of us had charged such doctrine on the Papists as this their Champion doth, should we not have been thought to slander them? viz. That their later Doctors hold that all that believe explicitly but a God and a Rewarder, and are baptized, are members of the Church of Rome; and consequently, that all that believe but this much, should be baptized; that is all the Mahometans, and almost all the Heathens in the world: And is Baptism and the Creed come to this? But I confess if the world were persuaded of this, the Pope could make his use of it: For when he is once taken for Governor of all the Church on earth, if he can but prove all the world to be the Church, it followeth that he is Governor of all the world. And what need they now their feigned embassies and submissions to prove the Abassines, Armenians, and Greeks to be of their Church, when Heathens and Mahometans are proved of it? and yet are Protestants no part.