_Soc._ [3]----_I believe, that that sense of them which God intendeth whatsoever it is, is certainly true; And thus I believe implicitely even those very truths, against which I err._ Next: [4]----_I do my_ best endeavour _to believe Scripture in the true sense thereof. By my best endeavour I mean_[5], _such a measure of industry, as humane prudence, and ordinary discretion_ (_my abilities, and opportunities, my distractions, and hindrances, and all other things considered_) _shall advise me unto in a matter of such consequence._ Of _using_ which _endeavour_ also, I conceive, I may be sufficiently certain: [for otherwise, I can have no certainty of any thing I believe from this compleat Rule of Scriptures; this due endeavor being the condition, which Protestants require, that I shall not be, as to all necessaries, deceived in the sense of Scripture.] Now, being conscious to my self of such a right endeavor used: [6]----_For me, to believe, further, this or that to be the true sense of some Scriptures; or to believe the true sense of them, and to avoid the false, is not necessary, either to my faith or salvation. For, if God would have had his meaning in these places certainly known, how could it stand with his wisdom, to be so wanting to his own will and end, as to speak obscurely? Or how can it consist with his justice to require of men to know certainly the meaning of those words which he himself hath not revealed?_ [7]----_For my error or ignorance in what is not plainly contained in Scripture, after my best endeavour used; to say that God will damn me for such errors, who am a lover of him, and lover of truth, is to rob man of his comfort, and God of his goodness; is to make man desperate, and God a Tyrant._ §. 4. _Prot._ But this defence will no way serve your turn for all points of Faith revealed in Scripture: for you ought to have of some points an _express_ and _explicite_ Faith. _Soc._ Of what points? _Prot._ Of all those that are _fundamental_ and _necessary_. _Soc._ Then if this point of _Consubstantiality of the Son with God the Father_ be none of the _Fundamentals_, and necessaries, wherein I am to have a right and an explicite Faith, the account I have given you already, I hope, is satisfactory. §. 5.