Welchman on Article XVIII: Of obtaining eternal Salvation only by the Name of Christ

and in vain did he command it to be preached through the whole World, if, after all, Believers and Unbelievers are equally intitled to Salvation. And yet, as we find in Mark xvi. 16. this Salvation is promised only to those who believe, and eternal Damnation is denounced against those who be- lieue not. How God will deal with those, among whom Christ hath not been preached, is not our Business to de- termine, Charity indeed requires us to hope well of such of them, if any such there be, who live up to the Rules of right Reason; but to place them upon a Level with the Church of God, is a very high Degree of Boldness and Presumption. Concerning such Persons, this Article is filent; and it only declares those Men to deserve being anathematized, or had accursed, who hold all Religions to be indifferent Matters, as if God regarded them all alike ; whereas the Religion of Christ is still the only Way to Salvation, which 1s instituted by God, |

See Ignatius. © Both the Beings which are above the & Heavens, the glorious Order of Angels, and the invisi- & ble as well as vitible Powers, unless they believe in the « Efficacy of the Blood of Christ, are obnoxious to Judg- « ment.” - And again, He is the Door of the Father, * by which Abraham and Jsaac, and the Prophets, and ce the Apostles, and the Church all enter.” —And again. « Without Him we have not the true Life.”

See also Barnabas. What is the Design of his Faith?

cc It ĩs, that they may know, that they cannot be delivered,

unless they have hoped in the Cross of Christ.” —And St, Cyprian. © There is no coming to the Father but by his Son Jesus Christ ; as appears from what he says & jn the Gospel according to St. ahn I am the May, and the Truth, and the Life: No Man cometh unto the

« Father but by Mc.” John xiv. 6 See also Sherl:ch on Judgment, Ch. 6. Prideaux’s Fasc.

Controv. Cap. 4. Q. 7. ys on the Creed, p. 349. Only the Name 0 bs) ee Jahn xiv. b. above cited. And Acts iv. 12. Neither is there Salvation in any other : For there is none other Name under Heaven given among Men, whereby we mujt be saved. And 1 John v. II, 12. And this 15 the 33 that God hath given to us eternal Life; and

this Life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath Life ; and

he that hath nat the Son, hath not Life,

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