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

R B. They agree not with your interest: But if the Testimonies and Tradition of two or three parts of the Christian world, be not to be heeded. I doubt the testimony of your third or fourth part will prove much less regardable. Let us try the case, for here you are utterly confounded, 1 Indeed none that our ordinary language calleth a Congregation, that is, men that meet locally together, are so big as all your party: But a Church far better united than you are, is far greater than yours. Those that have all the Essentials of the one Church of Christ, ¹are that one Church of Christ: But the Reformed Churches, the Greeks, Armenians, Abassines, Syrians, Jacobites, Georgians, Copts, &c. have all the Essentials of the one Church of Christ▪ Therefore they are that one Church of Christ. The Major is undeniable. The Minor is thus proved, They that hold the same Head of the Church, believing in the same God the Father, Son and •ly G•st, and are devoted to him in the same Baptismal Covenant, and believe all the Articles of faith, desire and practice essential to Christianity, in the Creed, Lords-prayer and Decalogue, and recei•e all the •re as Gods •ord, which i• •y here received by us as Canonical, these have all the •ls of the one Church of Christ (and much more) But such are all the forementioned Christians: Ergo, &c.

R B. They agree not with your interest: But if the Testimonies and Tradition of two or three parts of the Christian world, be not to be heeded. I doubt the testimony of your third or fourth part will prove much less regardable. Let us try the case, for here you are utterly confounded, 1 Indeed none that our ordinary language calleth a Congregation, that is, men that meet locally together, are so big as all your party: But a Church far better united than you are, is far greater than yours. Those that have all the Essentials of the one Church of Christ, ¹