The practical divinity of the papists discovered to be destructive of Christianity and mens…

Others there are who require not this little, nor think it needful to know these Articles more than implicitly, that is without understanding them; so Gulielmus Parisiensis, and Altissiodorensis in ^(f)Bannez, Summa Rosellae, after others holds ^(g)it enough for the simple, and perhaps all discerning people to believe, that God is the Rewarder of the good, and Punisher of the evil. A compendious Creed truly, and that which will never trouble the Conscience of a Turk, or a Heathen, the knowledge and faith of a Barbarous infidel is enough, it seems, to make a Papal Christian. Accordingly others teach, that such as are educated amongst Catholics, and are ignorant of the Trinity; are excused from the explicit knowledge thereof, especially if they want a Teacher; so Bartholomew, Medina, and Immanuel say, who gives this reason for it. ³We cannot say, that an infinite number of Christians, otherwise good people do perish, that scarce know any thing aright of the mystery of the Trinity, and incarnation; yea judge perversely of these points, if you ask them. And yet without the knowledge of the incarnation of Christ, there is no knowledge of the Creed, or of the ⟨p. 68⟩Gospel. Sancta ⁽ⁱ⁾Clara is of the same mind too, and quotes others for it.

Others there are who require not this little, nor think it needful to know these Articles more than implicitely, that is without understanding them; so Gulielmus Parisiensis, and Altissiodorensis in ^(f)Bannez, Summa Rosellae, after others holds ^(g)it enough for the simple, and perhaps all discerning people to believe, that God is the Rewarder of the good, and Punisher of the evil. A compendious Creed truly, and that which will never trouble the Conscience of a Turk, or a Heathen, the knowledg and faith of a Barbarous insidel is enough, it seems, to make a Papal Christian. Accordingly others teach, that such as are educated amongst Catholicks, and are ignorant of the Trinity; are excused from the explicite knowledge thereof, especially if they want a Teacher; so Bartholomew, Medina, and Immanuel say, who gives this reason for it.