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I often thought of proposing it to my Companions ; but on 

 one hand, I saw they were all dispos'd to endeavour suddenly, 

 at the hazard of their Lives, to return into the inhabited 

 World. On the other I had reason to fear there wou'd be 

 thouglit some kind of Affectation in that Design, which 

 they wou'd not have been pleas'd with. For in the Reflec- 

 tions we sometimes made upon Religion, we were always on 

 our Guard in an extraordinary manner, least we shou'd fall 

 into any Practice, or have any Ida^a which tended in the 

 least to Superstition, the most dangerous and most fatal Pest 

 of Christianity. We were so happy, as to be united all in 

 the same Spirit, without the false Wisdom of the Sagcn, and 

 that Pernicious knowledge of the Learned, the Disputers 

 and Innovators of this Age, which have caus'd so many 

 wicked Sects, and other Disorders in the Christian World. 

 The Errors of the Roman Gatliolichs and some others in the 

 matter of the necessity of Baptism, ought to be a Lesson to 

 us, not to fall into the like Mistake, in the use of the other 

 Sacrament, the Practice of which by the common consent of 

 all the Christians this day alive is not in it self necessary. 

 We found a great Comfort in our selves, in keeping closely 

 to that Pure and Primitive Evangelical Doctrine, which all 

 Divines without exception say, contains the Soul and Essence 

 of saving Faith, without entring into any Inquiries, which had 

 the least appearance of Unprofitableness or Curiosity. We 

 delighted in, and often Repeated Passages out of the Scrip- 

 ture, and these offered themselves to our Remembrance. All 

 that I propose to you is to hnoio Jesus Christ, and hi^n Cruci- 

 fy d. This is eternal Life to know thee, the only true God, and 

 Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. If thou confessest the Lord 

 Jesus with thy Mouth, and believe in thy Heart that God has 

 raisd him from the Dead, thou shall he Sav'd. Whoever believes 

 in me, has eteryial Life. Whoever calls iqoon the Name of the 

 Lord shall be savd. I have declared unto you all the Counsel 

 of God, to wit. Repentance towards God, and Faith in Jesus 



