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2. What necessity can be imagined why there should bee such striving, such wrastling, such con∣tending, such laying hold, such ingaging mens selves for one kinde of Faith, if all the Faiths the world over will serve mens truns as well? Men doe not use to trouble themselves, or put themselves to
straights and difficulties for obtaining any thing, when they may have their turnes served with ease. This was the argumēt that Phaaroh used to Iosephs fa∣mily, that they should not trouble or cumber them∣selves in their remove with their stuffe, because all the good of the Land of Aegypt was before them, and was theirs; that so they might bee suffici∣ently provided for there, without further charge or trouble: so, who needs trouble himselfe, or indan∣ger himself, or to contend for one Religion, if all the world before him, or any Religion hee can fall upon in it, had the like
certaine safetie. This is the argument which Paul likewise useth to disswade Christians from eating that which was sacrificed to Idols in case of of∣fence, or likelihood of offence; because (saith he) the earth is the Lords, and the fulnesse of it; as if hee should say, the Lord hath meate enough for them besides all the world over, that would nourish and preserve their naturall lives and healths, as well as that which was sa∣crificed to Idols; and therefore there was no ne∣cessitie to presse upon the eating of that; it had beene more tolerable if the Lords provision for
his family had beene all spent beside: so say I: to set up any such opinion in the Church, that there may be safetie and salvati∣on, as well in any other as in the Religion of Jesus Christ is to destroy the necessitie of this dutie of contending for this Faith. And on the contrary, to presse the necessity of this dutie, is the throwing downe of every such i∣maginations, whether men of this opinion, by run∣ning, or contending with God, have wrested from him any more names whereby to bee saved, so it is: sure we are, that there is given none other name under heaven, whereby to
bee saved; but onely the name of Jesus Christ. Acts 4. 12. There have beene, and still are many names given by Sathan for men to perish by eter∣nally: but to bee saved by, there is onely one given, and that by God (as Peter affirmeth.)