impossible for us to understand; to be left so destitute as that we can be deceived in necessary points, is repugnant to equity. This infallibility our Saviour Christ promised (in those things which are necessary to salvation) to his apostles until the day of judgment; that is to say, to the apostles, and pastors succeeding the apostles, who were to be consecrated _by the imposition of hands_. He therefore, who hath the sovereign power in the city, is obliged as a Christian, where there is any question concerning _the mysteries of faith_, to interpret the Holy Scriptures by _clergymen_ lawfully ordained. And thus in Christian cities, the judgment both of _spiritual_ and _temporal matters_ belongs unto the civil authority. And that man or council who hath the supreme power, is head both of _the city_ and _of the Church_; for a _Church_ and _a Christian city_ is but one thing. ------- CHAPTER XVIII. CONCERNING THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE NECESSARY FOR OUR ENTRANCE INTO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. 1. The difficulty propounded concerning the repugnancy of obeying God and men, is to be removed by the distinctions between the points necessary and not necessary to salvation. 2. All things necessary to salvation, are contained in faith and obedience. 3. What kind of obedience that is, which is required of us. 4. What faith is, and how distinguished from profession, from science, from opinion. 5. What it is to believe in Christ. 6. That that article alone, that Jesus is the Christ, is necessary to salvation; is proved from the scope of the evangelists. 7. From the preachings of the apostles. 8. From the easiness of Christian religion. 9. From this also, that it is the foundation of faith. 10. From the most evident words of Christ and his apostles. 11. In that article is contained the faith of the Old Testament. 12. How faith and obedience concur to salvation. 13. In a Christian city, there is no contradiction between the commands of God and of the city. 14. The doctrines which this day are controverted about religion, do for the most part relate to the right of dominion. [Sidenote: The difficulty propounded concerning the repugnance of obeying God and men, is to be removed by the distinction between the points necessary, and not necessary to salvation.]