[ 224, ] the Univerfal Judicature have decided the many /Hundred/Doubts about the Various Leetions; I would you would tell us where to find it; for I know not. §. Il. Your fecond llfe of the Soveraign Power, ' is to judge of the Senfe .of Fundamental Articles of Faith ; becaufe the W~rds may be f ak..en itt. a falfe Senfe.J , , , . I. This is very cauteloul1y fpoken : Is it only Fundttmentals that they are to expound by Sove– raign Judgment? How then fl1all we know the Senfe of all the refi of the S. Scriptures ? And how will this end a Thoufand Controverfies? 2. And why may not the fame Means fatisfie ·us about Fundam,emals, which·fatisfieth us about the Integrals of Religion ? Yea, we have here far better help. The firlt Chrifl:ians Catechized and t~ught the·Senfe of Bapt~fm befot~e they were Bap- · ttzed : They and their Tutors and Preachers taught -the fame to their Children, and fo ·on : Baptifm and the Fundamentals have been conllant· ly repeated in all the Churches of the World. There are as many,Witnefles-or Teachersofthefe, as there are Underfianding Chrifiians. And yet rnufi all needs hear from the Antipodes, or know ' the Senfe of aHumane Soveraign of the World, before they receive them ? 3· Can this Supreme Colledge fpeak the Fun. damentals plainlier ·than God bath done, and than the Pariih Priell: can do ? Are they necelfary to tell us that Chrifi died, rofe, afcended, becaufe Scripture fpeaketh it not plain enough? Weknow that no Words df Creed or Scripture, fallly un– detfiood, make a true Believer. But is not cha:t as true of aCouncils Words, as of the Creed ? · " - · ,And
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