is of God.”  And 1 Joh. 5. 1. “whosoever beleeveth that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God.”  And verse 5.  “Who is hee that overcommeth the world, but he that beleeveth that Jesus is the Son of God?” Fiftly, Act. 8. ver. 36, 37.  “See (saith the Eunuch) here is water, what doth hinder me to be baptized?  And Philip said, If thou beleevest with all thy heart thou mayst.  And hee answered and said, I beleeve that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.’  Therefore this Article beleeved, Jesus Is The Christ, is sufficient to Baptisme, that is to say, to our Reception into the Kingdome of God, and by consequence, onely Necessary.  And generally in all places where our Saviour saith to any man, “Thy faith hath saved thee,” the cause he saith it, is some Confession, which directly, or by consequence, implyeth a beleef, that Jesus Is The Christ.

From That It Is The Foundation Of All Other Articles The last Argument is from the places, where this Article is made the Foundation of Faith:  For he that holdeth the Foundation shall bee saved.  Which places are first, Mat. 24.23.  “If any man shall say unto you, Loe, here is Christ, or there, beleeve it not, for there shall arise false Christs, and false Prophets, and shall shew great signes and wonders, &c.”  Here wee see, this Article Jesus Is The Christ, must bee held, though hee that shall teach the contrary should doe great miracles.  The second place is Gal. 1. 8.  “Though we, or an Angell from Heaven preach any other Gospell unto you, than that wee have preached unto you, let him bee accursed.”  But the Gospell which Paul, and the other Apostles, preached, was onely this Article, that Jesus Is The Christ; Therefore for the Beleef of this Article, we are to reject the Authority of an Angell from heaven; much more of any mortall man, if he teach the contrary.  This is therefore the Fundamentall Article of Christian Faith.  A third place is, 1 Joh. 4.1.  “Beloved, beleeve not every spirit.  Hereby yee shall know the Spirit of God; every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is of God.”  By which it is evident, that this Article, is the measure, and rule, by which to estimate, and examine all other Articles; and is therefore onely Fundamentall.  A fourth is, Matt. 16.18. where after St. Peter had professed this Article, saying to our Saviour, “Thou art Christ the Son of the living God,” Our Saviour answered, “Thou art Peter, and upon this Rock I will build my Church:”  from whence I inferre, that this Article is that, on which all other Doctrines of the Church are built, as on their Foundation.  A fift is (1 Cor. 3. ver. 11, 12, &c.) “Other Foundation can no man lay, than that which is laid, Jesus is the Christ.  Now if any man build upon this Foundation, Gold, Silver, pretious Stones, Wood, Hay, Stubble; Every mans work shall be made manifest; For the Day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire, and the fire shall try every mans work, of what sort it is.  If any mans work abide,