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But all our Divines and your own confession of the Assembly at Westminster saith, ch. 31. Art. 4. All Councils, general or particular, since the Apostles times, may err, and many have erred.

But all our Divines and your owne confession of the Assembly at Westminster saith, ch. 31. Art. 4. All Councells, generall or particular, since the Apostles times, may erre, and many have erred.

To which I answer, No Councils, nay nor the whole invisible Church is infallible in the sense that the Apostles are infallible, both in believing and teaching by immediate inspiration, and so their word is not a rule of faith.

To which I answer, No Councells, nay nor the whole invisible Church is infallible in the sense that the Apostles are infallible, both in beleeving and teaching by immediate inspiration, and so their word is not a rule of faith.

2. A General Council convened in Council may err in particular Synodical acts, that is for a time and in some points as the Synod meaneth; but it followeth not, ergo, the invisible Church at all times, and finally may simply fall from the sound faith of fundamentals necessary for salvation, more then this is a good consequence, this particular believer may in one particular fundamental point err foully and grossly for a time; ergo, he is not infallible simpliciter, but may finally and totally fall away. And that of our Saviours, I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not, Luke 22.32. though it free not Believers from particular failings both in doctrine of faith, and conversation of life, and that grossly and foully, yet it secures them by Christs intercession in a state of infallibility in fundamentals, and in a condition of indeclinability in conversion, so as believers are