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But thô the Priests and Ministers of Religion, whose Lips should preserve Knowledge, are to take in a much greater Compass thereof, than is necessary they should instruct all Christians in; nay, and thô those narrower Bodies of Divinity, which under the last Particular, we term'd Catechetical, because they treat only of Points necessary to Salvation; Thô Books of this Nature, I say, are what all who pretend to teach others, ought to be well acquainted with themselves (be the Me∣thod they proceed in what the Authors please) yet since the Covenant of Grace; that Covenant, which was obtain d for the fallen Race of Man from God the Father, by the sole Mediation of his only Begotten Son, and that with no less a Price than his own most precious Blood; since this Covenant, we are sure and certain, contains the full Summ and Substance of what God has promis'd to us, and what we have engaged to God: This Covenant must therefore be that Sub∣ject, which, above all others, every Minister of the Gospel ought to penetrate to the very Bottom, and to be most exquisitely skill'd in the Nature, Terms, and Conditions thereof; and in every the least Circum∣stance pertaining thereunto. And therefore, since of all the Catechisms the Church of God has at this Day, that of the Church of England does most fully, without the defalcation of any Article of this Covenant, and