Englands Reformation From the Time of K Henry Viii to the End of Oates Plo
Englands Reformation From the Time of K Henry Viii to the End of Oates Plo
Thomas Ward
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CANTO II. 233 By Sarum's Bifhop, who from thence Draws Latitude in literal Senfe. Though Faith they have in no Degree More than I here have let you fee j Yet they are bufied about Finding Faith's Fundamentals out ; And Teach that thole who hold not all The Points of Faith tffential, Are no good ChrijUans y nor Believers, Or for Salvation right Contrivers. But here the puzzling Query rifes, That all their Do&orfhips fai prizes ; JVhat Articles are (z) fundanin. Ttil^ dnd what are not ? None of '...em can tell, But anfwer thus : It is a Riddle, With which wife People will not meddle. A folid Anfwer to their Flock, And needs muft thinking People (hock. To hear their Doctors preach and write, " You who feek Heav'n can ne'er come <{ Unlefs fuch Points of Faith you hold ts As never fia II by us be told. " This needs muft flrike a deadly Fear, And drive them into black Defpair. Suppofe the filly People fay, As very reafonably they may, Alas, (z) Gilbert Burnet, Biiiop of Sarum, in his Expofi- tion on the XXXIX Articles, teaches, That n Article being conceived in fuch general Words, that it can ad- mit of different literal and grammatical Senfes, even w'nen thp Scnfes given arc plainly contrary one to another; yet both may fubfiribc the Article with a good Con- fcience and without Equivocation, htrodutiicn to tbt fxp'jfiiea, p.
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