`7%ìFSr:/ Vi 450 ! CHAP.5. An Expo titian vpos thefirjt é'ER.g, t o. meane of faluation, they may be faumd ? Thus iudgeof the Opinion,as the high way to Atheifine. A fecond opinion there is, much of kin to the former, That euen to men out of the Church, all & euery of them, there is helpe fufficient granted for faluation. Cont. Be- like then, the knowledge of Chrift,withouc which,what may we imagine to befufficient ? Of it fpeakes Paul, and q Roma 5 aA. faith, There were Nations, amongft which the 9 Name, of I i; s v s was neurr heard of. Eucn at Athens, the Name Ael.17.I8.zo. mas new ; and for the noueitieofthat rfra SeGod, they deftcd to heare Paul further. Will they fay ? Though they knew him not by Scripture,or Preaching,yet notice fecret they had by infpiration. eAludio. But, firft, What rEph.z.iz. means Paul co lay, T hey werefwithout Chrifi,till they had him preached unto them? Secondly,Is it likely the Lord denying them the meanes ordinary,would mak a it fo or- dinary, to teach by immediate and extraordinary reuela- tion ?Thirdty,It is a wonder to me, this being fo vniuer- fall a grace, it fhould be taught by none of the Gentiles to their poferitie ; but they fhould all vanilla away, in the darknes of their Cogitations. As touching thofe few fen cences of the S 'yl'x,exrant in Awgufiine & Latlantitcí;' firs },neither were they vniuerfally knowne ;fecondly,and were full ofobfcuritie and dou btfùlnefIe;thirdly, as molt thinke, not vnderftood of them that vttered them. Leaning there Dreames, proceed we to enquire, hów and in what fort Christ is means to vs of faluation.There is of late fprung vp in die Church of God an Heretic, ftrangeto Chriftian cares, That Chrift no otherwifefaues vs, than by DoFtrine and Example ; teaching vs the way to Life, and by his owne !made guiding vs fo therein, that ifwe follow his Reps, we are made partakers of Sal - uationn.Me thinks they think of this fecondAdam, much whatas Pelagiansof the firft As he hurt not his pofteri- tie,otherwife than by the poyfon of his mill example; fo j neither doth Chrift helpe vs, but by his DoEtrine anel holy Exa=mple. Now
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