284 Direaions forgetting and keeping g tedious Difputes. ThePapiífs will tell him that they are the only true Catholick Church ( as if they had got a Monopoly or Patent for Religion, and had confined Chrift to themfelves ) who are fuch noto- rious abufersofhim. And as ifall the Churches of Çreece, Ethiopia, and the tell of the worldwere un- churcht by Chrift, to humour Ma:fter Pope, thongh they be far more in Number, and many of them founder in dotrine then the Romanifts are ; Thofe ofother parties will do the like, each one to draw him to their own way, And theDevil! would make him believe that there are asmany Religions as there be odd Opinions : when, alas, the Chriffian Religi- on is one, and but one, confiffing, for the doctri_ nais, in thofe fundamentals contained in our Creed and mens leffer erroneous opinions are but the fcabs that adhere to their Religion Only the Church of Rome is a very Leper, whofe infectious difeafe doth compel us to avoid her company : (As for any fort ofmen that deny the Fundamentals, I will not call them by the name of Chriffians) So alto in Duties ofWoribip Satan will be catfing in Scruples. If they Ihould hear the Word,he will caufe them to be fcrup<. ling the Calling of the Minifer , or fomething in his doctrine , to difcourage them. If they timid Dedicate their Children to Chrift in the Baptifmal +Covenant,he will be raifing fcruples about the Law- fulnefs of Baptizing Infants ; When they fhould folace their fouls at the Lords Supper,or other Com- munion of the Church, he will be raifing fcruples about the fitnefs of every one that they are to joyn with, and whether it be lawfull to joyn with fuel] an ignorant rn n, or fuch a wicked man; or whether it
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