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of God." This point therefore was sufficient for the reception of man into baptism, that is to say, to Christianity. And Acts, xvi. 29-31: "The keeper of the prison fell down before Paul and Silas, and said, Sirs, what shall I do to be saved? And they said, Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ." And the sermon of St. Peter, upon the day of Pentecost, was nothing else but an explication, that "Jesus was the Christ." And when they had heard him, they asked him, What shall we do? He said unto them, (Acts, ii. 38): "Amend your lives, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins." Rom. x. 9: "If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thy heart, that God raised him up from the dead, thou shalt be saved." To these places may be added, that wheresoever our Saviour Christ doth approve the faith of any man, the proposition believed, if the same be to be collected out of the text, is always some of these fundamental points before mentioned, or something equivalent: as the faith of the centurion (Matth. viii. 8): "Speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed"; believing he was omnipotent: the faith of the woman, which had an issue of blood (Matth. ix. 21): "If I may but touch the hem of his garment"; implying, he was the Messiah: the faith required of the blind men, (Matth. ix. 28): "Believe you that I am able to do this?" The faith of the Canaanitish woman, (Matth. xv. 22), that he was the "Son of David," implying the same. And so it is in every one of those places, none excepted, where our Saviour commendeth any man's faith, which because they are too many to insert here, I omit, and refer them to his inquisition that is not otherwise satisfied. And as there is no other faith required, so there was no other preaching for the prophets of the Old Testament preached no other; and John the Baptist preached only the approach of the kingdom of heaven, that is to say, of the kingdom of Christ. The same was the

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