IV. WHAT DOCTRINE MUST BE HELD BY THEM WHO SUB-

SCRIBE THIS ARTICLE.

1. It discountenances the Supralapsarian.

2. It favours the Calvinistic. For,

(1.) It asserts the efficacy of grace.

(2.) Its cautions may relate to that opinion.

3. It is not inconsistent with the Remonstrant. For,

(1.) The decree may be absolute or conditional.

(2.) Its cautions may relate to that opinion.

(3.) The other offices of the Church favour that opinion.

ARTICLE XVIII.

OF OBTAINING SALVATION ONLY BY THE NAME

OF CHRIST.

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I. AS TO THOSE TO WHOM THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION HAS
BEEN REYEALED.

II. AS TO THOSE WHO HAVE NOT HEARD OF THAT RELIGION.

1. Whether they can be saved?

(1.) The affirmative is implied in Scripture. Rom. ii. 12.

x. 14. Acts, x. 34.

proved from reason.

(2.)

2. How they shall be saved?

Acts iv. 2.

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OF THE AUTHORITY OF THE CHURCH.

1. THE POWER OF THE CHURCH.

1. To decree rites.

(1.) Proved by the tenor of Scripture. Rom. xiv. 19.

OF THE AUTHORITY OF GENERAL COUNCILS.

I. THE PERSONS WITH WHOM THE POWER OF CALLING COUN-

CILS IS LODGED.

1. The doctrine of the Article is proved from Scripture.

II. THE FALLIBILITY OF GENERAL COUNCILS.

1. Proved from our ignorance as to the properties which con-

stitute them.

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2. Proved from our ignorance as to the manner in which they

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I. THE DOCTRINES OF THE ROMAN CHURCH ARE REPUGNANT

TO SCRIPTURE.

1st. With respect to purgatory.

1. The distinction upon which it is founded is invalid.

Heb. viii. 12.

Objections refuted.

2. There is no intermediate state. Luke xxiii. 43. 2 Tim.

iv. 8. Phil. i. 23. 2 Cor. v. 8.

Objections refuted.

2nd. With respect to pardons.

3rd. With respect to worshipping of images. Ex. xx. 4. Is.

xl. 18. Ps. cvi. 20. Hos. viii. 4. Acts xvii. 16.

II. THESE DOCTRINES ARE CONTRARY TO THE SENSE OF THE

PRIMITIVE CHURCH.

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ARTICLE XXIII.

OF MINISTERING IN THE CONGREGATION.

I. IT IS UNLAWFUL FOR MEN TO ASSUME, WITHOUT DUE CAL-

LING, THE DISPENSING THE THINGS OF GOD.

1. This is proved from Scripture. John xx. 21. 2 Tim. ii. 2.

1 Tim. ii. 1. Tit. i. 5. 1 Cor. xii. 8.

II. WHAT CONSTITUTES A LAWFUL CALLING.

1. Definition supported by Scripture.

OF SPEAKING IN THE CONGREGATION IN SUCH A

TONGUE AS THE PEOPLE UNDERSTANDETH.

THE PRACTICE OF HAVING PUBLIC PRAYERS IN AN UNKNOWN

TONGUE IS CONDEMNED.

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OF THE SACRAMENTS.

I. DEFINITION OF A SACRAMENT.

Objections refuted.

II. THIS DEFINITION APPLIED TO THOSE CALLED SACRA-

MENTS.

1st. Baptism and the Supper of the Lord are Sacraments.

Matt. xxviii. 19. 1 Pet. iii. 21. 1 Cor. xii. 13.

Luke xxii. 19. 1 Cor. x. 17.

2nd. The five added by the Church of Rome are not Sacra-

ments.

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1o. With respect to Confirmation.

1. It has not the parts of a true Sacrament.

2. The parts assigned to it are inadmissible.

OF THE UNWORTHINESS OF THE MINISTERS

WHICH HINDERS NOT THE EFFECT OF THE

SACRAMENTS.

I. ITS EFFECT ON THE RECEIVER IS INDEPENDENT OF THE

CHARACTER OF THE MINISTER.

1. Proved by Scripture. Matt. vii. 22.

2.

the consequence of the opposite opinion.

II. THE DISCIPLINE OF THE CHURCH WITH RESPECT TO MI-

2. The internal end. Tit. iii. 5. 1 Pet. iii. 21.

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