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

CHAP. IV.

BY their Doctrine no faith is necessary, but that which is neither justifying nor saving. That which they will have necessary for the ignorant is what they call implicit. A faith which they may have without actually believing any one Article of the Christian faith. And is consistent with the belief of what is quite opposite to the Christian belief. And is but such a faith as Jews, Turks, and Pagans have. This was not thought sufficient for Christians, till they were thought something like Asses, and so expressed by some of their great Saints and Doctors. How many ways they have to exempt the people from the obligation of all precepts for any other than this brutish faith, Sect. 1. to page 114.

BY their Doctrine no faith is necessary, but that which is neither justifying nor saving. That which they will have necessary for the ignorant is what they call implicit. A faith which they may have without actually believing any one Article of the Christian faith. And is consistent with the belief of what is quite opposite to the Christian belief. And is but such a faith as Jews, Turks, and Pagans have. This was not thought sufficient for Christians, till they were thought something like Asses, and so expressed by some of their great Saints and Doctors. How many ways they have to exempt the people from the obligation of all precepts for any other than this bruitish faith, Sect. 1. to page 114.

The faith requisite in the more intelligent to justifieth them they call explicit. This, as described by them in its object, includes things uncertain impertinent, false, impossible, and ridiculous, as points that must be certainly believed unto justification. This of it self (as themselves say) deserves not the name of a virtue, is an idle dead thing, may be found in the worst of men, and in the Devils too. Yet it is with them the Christian, the Catholic faith, Sect. 2. to page 116.