Poo? .93ano famiip'Zook. 57 and Refolvedly Content to the Conditions (i) required of you. 3. And you muff prefently Oblige your felf, to the faithful PraElice of them, and to continue true toyour Covenant from the time of your Baptifm till death. S. Truly if Converfion be no more than to dowhat Ivowed to do, and to be a Chriflian f rioufy, which be- fore I was but by name and Hypocritical profeflion, I have no more Reafon to flick at it, than tobe agarnff Tiaptifm and chri(lianity it felf. Firfl then will you help my Underflandingabout it. P. I. Youmarl: underftand and Believe the Articles ofthe Chriftian Faith, exprefTed in the CommonCreed : which you hear every day at Church, and profefs AfTent toit. S. Alas ,Ihear it andfay it by rote ; but 1 never well underflood it or confädered it. PP The Chriftian Belief bath three principal parts : that is, our Relieving in (k,,) God the Father and in God the Son, and in God the Holy Ghof : And each of there bath divers Articles. I. In the firft part all thefe,tbings mutt be underflood and believed. r. That there is, (l) one Only GO D, in three Perfons, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft who is an Infinite , Eternal, Perfe& Spirit : a perfeet life, underflanding endw,ll ; perfee ly powerful,wife and good : The firs{ efficient chief governing, and final caufe or end of all : Of whom, and through whom, and to whom are (i) Math. 2,8.i9,20. (k, "L'at.8.t9,2o. (l)I Cor, 8. 4,6. r 7oh.5.7. I Tir,4.i.i7. Pfal.13-.7,8 9v 147. 5. /r=.40. i 7. Neh.9.6.Fey.48. Ci 13 .3. Eze 18. 4. '.47 14j.9. all
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