_Prot._ But [34]_It is a sufficient prescription against any thing which can be alledged out of Scripture, that it ought not to be looked on as the true meaning of Scripture, if it appear contrary to the sense of the Church Catholick from the beginning; and therefore such doctrines may well be judged destructive to the rule of Faith, which have been so unanimously condemned by the Church Catholick._ _Soc._ Why so? _Prot._ [35]_Because nothing contrary to the necessary Articles of Faith can be so held by the Catholick Church; for its very Being depends on its belief of necessaries to salvation._ _Soc._ This last is most true; but then, if you mean to make your discourse cohere, you must say, it is a sufficient prescription, _&c._ if it appear contrary to the sense of the Catholick Church, _viz. in a point necessary_: for, the reason you give carries, and secures you no further; and then that which you say is no great matter: For, here we are still to seek, whether the point we discourse of is in the affirmative such a _necessary_. §. 16. _Prot._ But this is ranked among those points which the Church hath put in her Creeds. _Soc._ From the beginning this Article was not in the Creed; and though it should be granted that all points necessary are contained in the Creeds, yet all in the Creeds are not thought points necessary: [36]_Necessary so, as to be believed by any before a clear conviction of the divine Revelation thereof_: which conviction I yet want. §. 17. _Prot._ But yet, though, first the Catholick Church may err in _non-necessaries_; And 2ly. in what points are _necessary_, what not, her judgment be not infallible, yet you have still great reason to submit your judgment to hers; because, if it happen to be a point necessary, she is from the divine Promise infallible and unerring in it; not so, you. 2. If not necessary, and so both she and you therein liable to error, yet you much the more; and she also in these things is appointed by God for your Teacher and Guide.