A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are…A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are…

The fifth argument I draw from Heb: 6. 1. 2. Where we have an enumeration of the general Catechetical heads, which was necessarily required in Catechumens, before they were baptized and received as Church Members, and where there was yet no Church planted, these heads were taught, learned, and professed, before there could be a visible political Ministerial Church erected, that the Apostles speaks to the Hebrews as visible Ministerial Churches is manifest, both from the particulars here enumerat, and fr•m Chap. 5. 12. 13. & 13. 7. 17. Now he exhorteth them to go on unto perfection, and not to be ever about the laying of foundations, or about the learning of these Catechetical principles, the knowledge and profession, whereof did first give them an entrance, state, and standing in the visible Church of Christ, viz.

The fifth argument I draw from Heb: 6. 1. 2. Where wee have an enumeration of the generall Catecheticall heads, which was necessarly required in Catechumens, before they were baptized and receaved as Church Members, and where there was yet no Church planted, these heads were taught, learned, and professed, before there could be a visible politicall Ministeriall Church erected, that the Apostles sp•aks to the Hebrews as visible Ministeriall Churches is manifest, both from the particulars here enumerat, and fr•m Chap. 5. 12. 13. & 13. 7. 17. Now he exhorteth them to goe on unto perfection, and not to be ever about the laying of foundations, or about the learning of these Catecheticall principles, the knowledge and profession, whereof did first give them an enterance, state, and standing in the visible Church of Christ, viz.

1. The foundation of repentance, i. e. Conviction and knowledge of sin by the law, humiliation and sorrow for it, with a desire of freedom for it. 2. The foundation of faith ⟨p. 48⟩in Christ for our wisdom, righteousness, sanctification and redemption. 3. The foundations of Baptism, i. e. The abolishing of these diverse legal washings, Hell. 9. 10. and the ordinance of the Christian baptism for sealing the Covenant of grace, and for initiation in Church membership: Others say he speaks in the plural, because in those times many were baptized at once usually. 4. The foundation of laying on of hands, that is (saith Bullinger on the place) of the Ministry, and of their Vocation, Mission, and authority given them. So also Gualther in his Archetypes upon the place, Tossanus pointeth at the same thing, as principally intended in the Text, Which agreeth well with that which diverse Divines make one of the marks of a true visible Church, namely, a Ministry lawfully called and ordained, and professed subjection thereunto. 5. The foundation of the resurrection from the dead. 6. The foundation of the last judgement, in which Christ shall adjudge the righteous to life everlasting, and the wicked to everlasting punishment,