The one thing necessary Preached in a sermon at Pauls, before the Right Honourable…

4. Branch,¹ It reproves them that instead of working out their salvation, do dispute away their salvation; 1. Such as dispute against the authority of Scripture, and would make our faith a fable. 2. Such as dispute against the immortality of the soul, and so at once would pull down the court of conscience. 3. Such as dispute against the divinity of Christ. This may be called indeed the doctrine of Devils^*. Tis a doctrine diametrally opposite to that Scripture, 1 John 5. 20. We are in him that is true, even in his son Jesus Christ. This is the true God. Which Text is a Bulwark against the Socinian. O! the patience of God that ⟨p. 33⟩those who open their mouths blasphemously against Christ, the earth doth not open her mouth and swallow them up. That such should have any connivance (if not more) who dare impugn the divinity of the Son of God, is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation. Some of the best Heathen Writers^* affirm that there were Edicts and punishments enacted by Heathen Princes and States in matters of Religion. An Heathen would not suffer his god to be blasphemed; and shall Christians suffer it?

4. Branch,¹ It reproves them that instead of working out their salvation, do dispute away their salvation; 1. Such as dispute against the authority of Scripture, and would make our faith a fable. 2. Such as dispute against the immortality of the soul, and so at once would pull down the court of conscience. 3. Such as dispute against the divinity of Christ. This may be called indeed the doctrine of Devils^*. Tis a doctrine diametrally opposite to that Scripture, 1 John 5. 20. We are in him that is true, even in his son Jesus Christ. This is the true God. Which Text is a Bulwark against the Socinian. O! the patience of God that