either erroneous or superstitious, and consequently, that
they had a preparation of mind to believe, and pra∣ctise
the contrary Truths, if they had been made
known unto them, or rather, if they had not by
their false Teachers been concealed from them: and
lastly supposing likewise that as they do actually and
particularly repent of all their known sins, so they do
habitually, or in the general, truly and heartily repent
before they die of all their unknown sins also; or of
all such sins of theirs which God knows to be sins,
though they do not; and consequently of all such
Errors and Superstitions as they have ignorantly, and
unwittingly, and unwillingly lived in. Although
(I say) we have so much Charity for some that have
been born, and lived, and died in the Communi∣on
of the Church of Rome as not to deny upon the
aforesaid Suppositions they may be Saved, not Be∣cause
but Notwithstanding they lived and di∣ed
in that Church, which is no more than the Cha∣rity
which upon the same supposition they have for
us, or for those that live and die in our Church:
yet we have not, nor cannot have the same Hope for
Those that having been born and bred in our Church,
and sufficiently instructed in the Doctrine of it, do
afterwards become Apostates from it, and Proselytes
to the Church of Rome, by renouncing those Truths
they were taught in the one, and professing those
Falsities they are made to believe in the other:
for whom (as I said) we have no such hope, nor
indeed any hope at all, unless they do actually and
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