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                                                                      	in the Bible, but about serious and well weighed d[c]octrine
                                                                      The greater number of persons who hotly dispute the doc-
                                                                      trine of B.R. understand by Regeneration the Saving Grace
                                                                      of Christ God;  The final conscience of sinners to Christ
                                                                      a consummate Grace of God to his elect;  after the
                                                                      bestowal of which they cannot perisj:
	since it is altogether indisputable that the greater                 It is nevertheless as clear as noonday that the Church
number of baptised persons throughout Christendom are                 does not mean by "Regeneration" anything of this kind -
bold and godless sinners -                                            quarrel with her therefore if you will, for improper use
                                                                      of the English language, and for using the word Regenera-
                                                                      tion in a sense different from yours, but do not quarrel
                                                                      with her doctrine until you candidly ref[x]lect what she
                                                                      really means:  It may be you will then have two quarrels
                                                                      with her instead of one - one for incorrect doctrine
                                                                      another for inaccurare language. - only do not confound
                                                                      your two accusation together, since the latter is a very
                                                                      light one   Examine her doctr[i]i[s]nes first, and if you can
                                                                      accept that, for the sake of peace in Christendom,
                                                                      forgive her her language.
                                                                      Now there are four distinct modes in which the churches
                                                                      words may be understood, since that all baptized persons
                                                                      are saved, she does not and could not mean.
                                                                      1.   That all persons are converted at Baptism;  but that
                                                                      converted persons are not all safe for ever:  but are
                                                                      capable of falling away from Christ.

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