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Let it be your rule for faith; The Gospel is the only Creed, he that believeth this is a true believer. As the Word, Christ is the personal foundation, so the Word of Christ is the Doctrinal foundation, for every Christian to build on, Ephes. 2.19, 20. This we believe, saith Tertullian, when we first believe that we ought to believe nothing beyond the Scriptures. Paul proves himself a true believer, because he believed all things written in the Law and Prophets, Act. 24.14.

Let it be your rule for faith; The Gospel is the onely Creed, he that beleiveth this is a true beleiver. As the Word, Christ is the personal foundation, so the Word of Christ is the Doctrinal foundation, for every Christian to build on, Ephes. 2.19, 20. This we beleive, saith Tertullian, when we first beleive that we ought to beleive nothing beyond the Scriptures. Paul proves himself a true beleiver, because he beleived all things written in the Law and Prophets, Act. 24.14.

Make it your rule for worship. To serve God according to your own inventions, or mens prescriptions, is Rebellion and dis-service. As the Moth eats out the Garment, and the Rust the Iron, so doth an Apocryphal worship in time eat out an Evangelical worship, Mat 15.7. All worship of God without warrant, is like private coining money, high Treason against the King of Heaven. God (though men durst not) charged Jeroboam with this crime, He offered upon the Altar which he had made, in the month which he had devised of his own heart, 1 King. 12.33. He took liberty to worship, when, and where he pleased; not when, and where God pleased. Till man can be his own maker, he may not be his own Law giver; While his dependence is on God, God expecteth observance from him. The Gospel is not only a royal law, but a perfect law,