(is) webelieve in Chrift, and not believe that he is God and Man, that hedyed, role, and afcended into Heaven, and will judgeus at laft ? and that he pardoneth fin, renew- eth Souls by hisSpirit, and will give us life hereafter ? All thefe are included in believing in Chrift, as Chriff. And how muft I believe that Chrift hath given the Pope this Infallibility or Power ? By anywritten word which granteth it ? or by Oral Tradition ? If by the written Word, then I muft believe that that Word is true, be- fore I can believe that the Pope is made Pope or Infalli- ble by it ? If by Oral Tradition, whole muft that be ? Then I muff believe force bodiesOral Tradition as true and infallible, before I, believe in the Pope at all. If it be the firft Hearers of the Apoffles, then either the Pope was one of thole, or not. If yea, and he hath a Ne- gative Voice in thecredible report, then I muft believe him as Infallible, before he is proved Infallible, in order to mybelieving that he is Infallible, which is a contra- diaion. If Not, Then I mutt believe the Infallibility of other Hearers of the Apoftles before I can believe the Pope's ? And the Queftion will recur, How I (hall know them to be Infallible ? And who they were that were thole Infallible Witnefles ? Whether Paftors only, or the People? Whether of force one Church, or of all theChurches ? And how I (hall prove that they gave fuck a Teftimony ? So that your pretenfe of a Neceffity of receiving Gods Word, or the . Chriftian Faith, from the Pope and his Council cometh too late : For it feemeth that we muft believe it firft, before it be poffible tobelieve in the Pope andCouncil as authorifed byChrift. And if my Implicite Faith be the Beliefof this Arti- cle, [Any church in 411 the world, ye , thç greater :part
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