The Christian Religion Expressed, Title page – Appendix

The Christian Religion Expressed · Title page – Appendix

THE Christian Religion. Expressed I. briefly, in the ancient Creeds, the ten Commandments, and the Lords Prayer.

And II. more largely in a Profession taken out of the holy Scriptures; Containing 1. The Articles of the Christian Belief. 2. Our Consent to the Gospel Covenant. 3. The sum of Christian Duty.

According to the Primitive Simplicity, Purity, and Practice: Fitted to the right Instructing of the Ignorant, the promoting of Holiness, and the Charitable Concord of all true Believers.

Which whosoever sincerely Believeth, Consenteth to, and Practiseth, shall certainly be saved.

It is also by prefixed Questions, made a Catechism.

By Richard Baxter.

London Printed, 1660.

To fill up this vacant Page.

THE Papists Confession of the sufficiency of our Belief. Concil. Basil. Orat. Ragus. Bin. p. 299. [The Holy Scripture in the literall sense, soundly and well understood, is the Infallible and most sufficient Rule of faith.]

Bellarm. de verbo Dei, l. 4. c. 11. [In the Christian doctrine both of Faith and Manners, some things are simply necessary to salvation, to all; as the knowledge of the Articles of the Apostles Creed, of the ten Commandments, and of some Sacraments: The rest are not so Necessary, that a man cannot be saved without the explicite knowledge, belief and profession of them—These things that are simply necessary, and are Profitable to all, the Apostles preached to all— All things are written by the Apostles which are Necessary to all, and which they openly preaclot to all] (See the place.)

Costenus Enchirid. c 1. p. 49. Non inficiamur praecipua illa fidei capita quae omnibus Christians cognitu sunt ad salutem necessaria, perspicuè satis esse Apostolicis scriptis comprehensa.