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the same in effect; as, that "he is God's anointed"; for that is signified by the word Christ: that "he was the true and lawful king of Israel, the Son of David, the Saviour of the world, the redeemer of Israel, the salvation of God, he that should come into the world, the son of God," and, which I desire by the way to have noted, against the now sect of Arians, "the begotten Son of God," Acts iii. 13; Heb. v. 5: "The only begotten Son of God," John i. 14, 18; John iii. 16, 18; 1 John, iv. 9: "That he was God," John i. 1; John xx. 28; "That the fulness of the Godhead dwelt in him bodily," Coloss. ii. 9: Moreover, "the Holy One, the Holy One of God, the forgiver of sins, that he is risen from the dead." These are explications, and parts of that general article, that "Jesus is the Christ." This point therefore, and all the explications thereof are fundamental: as also all such as be evidently inferred from thence; as, BELIEF IN GOD THE FATHER: John xii. 44: "He that believeth in me, believeth not in me, but in him that sent me"; 1 John ii. 23: "He that denieth the Son, hath not the Father": BELIEF IN GOD THE HOLY GHOST, of whom Christ saith, John xiv. 26: "But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name": and John xv. 26: "But when the Comforter shall come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth": BELIEF OF THE SCRIPTURES, by which we believe those points and of the immortality of the soul, without which we cannot believe he is a Saviour.

7. And as these are the fundamental points of faith necessary to salvation; so also are they only necessary as matter of faith, and only essential to the calling of a Christian; as may appear by many evident places of Holy Scripture: John v. 39: "Search the Scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life, and they are they which testify of me." Now, forasmuch as by the "Scripture," is