[ jO)] being contrary to Chrifis general La\VS~ . 1 4· Whatever maketh true Chrifii:ms maketh Men Members of Chrifl: and his Church? And. only the Eifentials of Chriaians g? to make true Chrifiians, and the Integrals to make compleat Chrifiians. ' I 5. The Canons of Bifi1ops are not Effential to ' ·Chrifiiabity , nor the underHanding the many Controverfies about Diocefans, Pa:~riarchs; Coun– cils, Ordiuacions, Succeffions, nor to know which · is the true Bifhop. . - z6. Baptifin is our Chrifiening, and he that is rruely Baptized is a Chri!tian, and a Member of Chrift, and hath the pardon of Sin and right to Heaven before he be a Member Bf a particular Church, or ,Pafior ; as the Eunuch Ails 8. and many converted without Bi!hops : As the Indians by Edejim and Frumentias, and the Iberians by _a Maid, &c. .. . . 17. Whofoever truely repenteth and believeth and loveth 'God as God, and is of a Heav~nly Mind and Life, is pardoned before God, b~fote Baptifm, and Baptifm cloth but Inve!t him in it, , and make him a Chrifiian more fully by Covenant , and, before the Church, and the want of it with... out contempt will not keep him from · Salva~ tion. 18. Noone fl1all be faved by .being joyned to ' a right Bif11op, or recs;i~ring the Eucharift, who . hath not true Repentance, Faith, Love, and the Spirit of Holinefs: No Sacrament faveth the un.. qualified. . . . 19. Thoufands live in ign9rance and ·w!cked– nefs, in Atheifm, Sadducei{mJ Carnalicy, Adul– tery, Dnmkennefs, &c. that conform to Bi!hops X • and
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