Articles of the Church of England. maintain, with all Protestant Churches, that the rule of true religion is in the word of God only; and that our faith is not to be an implicit faith........... Importance of these two principles for avoiding schisms and persecutions; for uniting Protestants against the common adversary, and promoting the toleration of all Protestants ... False religion or heresy, a religion taken up and believed from the traditions of men, and additions to the word of God...... Popery the only, or the greatest heresy The obstinate Papist the only heretic ........ Page The Romish Church the mother of error and school of heresy 6 The title, Roman Catholic, a mere contradiction in terms 6 Sects, in a true Church, as well as in a false ..... 6 Sectaries, followers of any doctrine too much for the teacher's sake 6 Implicit faith, a blind devotedness to teachers..... 6 Schism a separating of congregations Schisms may be in a true Church, as well as in a 17 ....... false... 7 Schism in a true Church needs not tend to the breaking of communion, except where opinions are destructive to faith............... Of Calvinists, in making God the author of sin... Trinity, and the satisfaction of Christ... 9, 10, 11 Sophistic subtleties of Arians and Socinians, in their disputes against the Trinity .... Page abjuring the principles of their religion 12 All Protestants to be equally tolerated in preach- Controverted points of doctrine to be tolerated, which are not slightly grounded in Scripture Nothing indifferent in religion Nothing in religion to be believed or obeyed but Popery, a double thing to deal with, claiming a two-fold power, ecclesiastical and political 15, 16 Ecclesiastical ever pretended to political-ecclesi- The Papal Anti-Christian Church permits not the laity to read the Bible in their own Our Church hath proposed it to all men, and to this end translated it into English.............. Popery chiefly upheld by ignorance of the The NEXT MEANS to hinder the growth of Popery 25, 26 26 |