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and Sacraments (Matth. 16. 18. Rom. 10. 14. &c.) and 

 sanctifying it to eternal life, Acts. 9. 31. &c. And that 

 one day at the end of the world he will come from 

 heaven (Acts i. 11.) to judge the quicke and the dead 

 (i. Thessal. 4. 15.) that he will render unto the wicked 

 according to their workes, and that he wil judge them to 

 eternal paines (Matth. 13. 42. & 25. 4.) but that he wil 

 reward them with eternal life, who beleeve in his Name 

 (Matth. 25. 34.) This Jesus Christ (I say) wee acknow- 

 ledge to be our redeemer (Matth. i. 21.) our head (i. 

 Corinth. 12. 27.) and our Lord (Ephe. 4. 5.) And that 

 wee in our holy baptisme do give, and have given our 

 names unto him (Acts. 2. 38.) and that we are engraffed 

 into him by baptisme (i. Corin. 12. 13.) And this we 

 do plainely, ingenuously, freely, and willingly confesse, 

 and witnesse : And as for all others who invent any other 

 name in heaven given unto men by which they may be 

 saved, we doe earnestly detest, curse, and condemne 

 them (Acts. 4. 12.) We holde his most holy Word 

 to be the onely rule of our salvation : And that alone 

 (all mans devises being cast away and contemned) we 

 propound unto our selves as an infallible rule, and level 

 of our faith (Galat. 1.8. Esai 29. 13. Ezech. 20.) which 

 we conteine under the name of the olde and newe Testa- 

 ment (Hebr. 8.) delivered by the Prophets and Apostles 

 (Ephe. 2. 20.) by the singular and infinite goodnesse 

 of God, preserved ever unto this day and to be preserved 

 hereafter alwayes in the Church (Matth. 28. last verse. 

 Psal. 71. 18. I. Cor. II. 26.) 



Therefore we render thankes unto our most gratious 

 and Almighty God from our soule, and from our whole 

 heart, because that even unto us being separated an huge 

 distance from the rest of the body of his Church, and 

 inhabiting the farthest parts of the world, hee would that 

 this light graunted for the revelation of the Gentiles, and 

 prepared before the face of all people, and in olde time 

 favourably shewed to holy Simeon (for in Christ are all 

 the treasures of wisedome hidden) which now doeth 



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