Secondly, Whether the Popish Dourines, up on which we differ with them, are Her tical, according to the Senfe of the Prim tive Church? And this Iue we will h concluded by; to this we always defire bring them: So that here the Caufe mu End.

For as to their Preaching these Doctrine publickly in the Church, owning of them Bare fac'd, Writing for them, and Punishing tho who Deny'd them, of this ther is no Doubt.

Here then the Difpute lies, upon the Addi tional Articles of Trent, which that Counci has made of Faith.

Yet pretend not, That they can add to the Creed; only by way of Explaining the true Senfe and Meaning of it. Whereas, moft of the Trent New Articles are of things, where of ther is no mention at all in the Creed; as Purgatory, Invocation of Saints, &c. And even the Grand Point of Trans-fubftantiation, which is Explaining the Manner of CHRIST's Prefence in the Holy Sacrament, which He has no where Reveal'd, He has not told us at all the Manner, whether by Subftantiation, or Confubftantiation, or Trans-fubftantiation, or how otherwife; and therefor no Man can Define it, or ought to Attempt it; at leaft, fo as to make our Definitions to be Articles of Faith, and enforcing them with Anathemas: But, I fay, befides all this, ther is no mention of this Holy Sacrament it felf in any of the three Creeds receiv'd by the Catholick Church, that is, the Apoftolical, Nicene, or Athanafian Creeds; How then can the Article of Trans-fubftantion be an Explication of any of thefe Arti

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The Sacraments are a Publick Profeffion and Exhibition, they are moreover Seals and Pledges of our Faith in CHRIST Crucify'd: But as the Seal is no Part of the Writing to which it is Affixed; fo the Seals of our Faith, are not the Faith it felf; and therefor are not mention'd in the Creed (which is a Summary of our Faith only) more than Preaching, Prayers, and other Means of Grace, which God has appointed.

The Church of Rome has no way to come off, but under the Shelter of that Article of Believing the Holy Catholick Church, and then fuppofing Her felf to be that Catholick Church, that we must receive for Faith, whatfoever the propofes to us as fuch.

This, Firft, takes the main Caufe for granted, That She is the Catholick Church, and confe quently, that the Major, Number of twenty, thirty, or fixty Bishops, many of them Penfioners to the Pope, and fome only Nominal (as one for Archbishop of Upfal in Sweden, and another for Ardmagh in Ireland, to reprefent thefe two Nations, both then broke off from Rome, and under other Archbishops of their own) were the whole Catholick Church: For ther were no more Bifhops to compofe feveral Seffions of the Council of Trent, as you may Read in the Hiftory of it, in the Second Book.

Secondly, If this Article of the Catholick Church were fo understood, ther needed no other Article but this one, that is, To receive for Faith, whatever fhe told us as fuch.

But if the Creed was meant as a compleat Summary of All the Articles of Faith, then All the Articles must be there.

And again, The Creed cou'd be never Clofed, or Complete, if ther was a Referve in it, for New Articles in Infinitum..

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Thirdly, All the Chriftian Churches in the World have agreed in the Apostles Creed, as a compleat Summary of their Faith: And I takt it to be Impoffible for them All to Agree in the Adding of any New Article. This is an Infal lible Affurance of our Faith: And if any particular Church does it (and Rome is but one particular Church, and therefor cannot be the Ca tholick, more than a Part can be the Whole) it must be Detected by the reft, as the New Articles of Trent have been.

And we receive not our Faith from Rome Alone, but as that Church (however Eminent more than others) ftands in the Lift with All other Chriftian Churches, as a Joint Witness with them of their Common Faith, as it was once Deliver'd to the Saints by the Holy Apoftles, therefor the word Apoftolical is join'd with that of Catholick, in the Article of the Church.

But this being a Controverfy by it felf, different from our prefent Subject, tho' not altoge ther Foreign to it in its Confequences; I will now enter no farther into it; only I thought it not Inconvenient to have faid thus much, because I forefaw it might be objected.

Therefor recommending what I have here offer'd, to your ferious Confideration; let us not forget the Regard which God has to our Bodies, which He calls His Temple, and threatens to Deftroy those who shall Defile it: And commands us to offer up our Bodies as a Reasonable Sacrifice unto Him. Therefor they are not our own, and we cannot difpofe of them in Marriage, after our own Lufts and Fancy, or otherwife than according to His Law; which let us Befeech him, that he would open our Eyes to Understand, and would write it in our Hearts. O AI

Almighty Lord and Everlafting God; vouchsafe, We befeech Thee, to Direů, Sandifie and Govern both our Hearts and Bodies in the Ways of Thy Laws, and in the Works of Thy Commandments, that through Thy moft mighty Protection, both Here and Ever; We may be Preferved in Body and Soul through our Lord and Saviour Fefus Chrift. Amen.

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