443 Chap. Ill. The HIS T 0 RY of the PuttiTANS. P rovincial affembly of London continued their feffions at Sion Coliege every Oliver d {i h d . · f h "ft · 1 ffi Proteliar. half year, and endeavoure to upport t e. 1gmty o t e mtm ena o ce. 1654 . Complaint having been made that the rulptt doors ~ere fet open to lay- ~ men, and gifted brethren, they appotnted a committee to colleCt mateterials for the vindication of the miniflerial charaCter, which being revifed by the fynod, was ~ublilhed thi~ ~um~cr under the title ?f jus. 1ivinu~ minijlerii evangelict : or, the dtvme rtght of an evangeltcal mtnijlry, m two parts. By t/:;e pro·vincial q!fembly of London. With an appendix, of the judgment and practice of antiquity. In the debates of parliament upon theinjlrument of government, it was ob- Attlmptst ferved that by the thirty-feventh article, all who prqfi/Jedfaith in God by~~~:ft:." a– 'J efus Chrijl Jhould be proteCied in their religion. This was interpreted, to Baxter's life, imply an agreement in fundamentals. Upon which it was voted, that all Part II. P· jhould be tolerated or indulged who projej)ed the fundamentals of chrijtiani- I97· ty; and a committee was appointed to nominate certain divines to draw up a catalogue offundammtals to be prefented to the houfe: the committee being about fourteen, named each of them a divine ; among others archbiihop Ujher was nominated, but he declining the affair, Mr. Baxter was appo\nted in his room~ the reft who aCl:ed, were Dr. Owen, Dr. Goodwin, Dr. Cheynel, Mr. Marjhal, Mr. Reyner, Mr. NJ'e, Mr. Sydrach Simpfon# Mr. Vines, Mr. Manton, Mr. Jacomb. Commitlee to draw up the Julldammtal; of r~ligion. Mr. Baxter would have perfuaded his brethren to offer the committee Life. Part the apo.flles creed, the Lord's prayer, and the ten commandments alone, as ll. p. 198. containing the fundamentals of religion; but it was objeCl:ed, that this would include Jocinians and papijls. Mr. Baxter replied, that it was fo much fitter for a centre of unity or concord, becaufe it was impoffible in his opinion, to devife a form of words which hereticks would not fubfcribe, when they ~ad perverted them to their own fenfe. Thefe arguments not prevailing, the following articles were prefented to the committee, but not brought into the houfe ; under the title of :!'he principles iffaith prefented by Mr. THo. GooDWIN, Mr. NYE, Mr. SYnRACH SrMPSON, and other miniflers, to the committee of parliameat for religion /;y way of explanation to the propofolsjor propagating the gqjpel. ' Firft, That the holy fcripture is that rule of knowing God unto him, ~vhich whofo does not believe cannot he faved. ' L 11 z andliving 'The articles, V. P. N9 68, 2 Thef.
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