5. And under a Christian sovereign we are to consider, what actions we are forbidden by God Almighty to obey them in, and what not. The actions we are forbidden to obey them in, are such only, as imply a denial of that faith which is necessary to our salvation: for otherwise there can be no pretence of disobedience; for why should a man incur the danger of a temporal death, by displeasing of his superior, if it were not for fear of eternal death hereafter? It must therefore be enquired, what those propositions and articles be, the belief whereof our Saviour or his apostles have declared to be such, as without believing them, a man cannot be saved; and then all other points, that are now controverted, and made distinction of sects, Papists, Lutherans, Calvinists, Arminians, &c. (as in old time, the like made Paulists, Apollonians, and Cephasians), must needs be such, as a man needeth not for the holding thereof, deny obedience to his superiors. And for the points of faith necessary to salvation, I shall call them _fundamental_, and every other point a _superstruction_. [Sidenote: An explication of the points of faith, that be fundamental.] 6. And without all controversy, there is not any more necessary point to be believed for man’s salvation than this, that _Jesus is the Messiah_, that is, _the Christ_; which proposition is explicated in sundry sorts, but still the same in effect; as, that _he is God’s anointed_; for that is signified by the word Christ: that _he was the true and lawful king of Israel, the son of David, the Saviour of the world, the redeemer of Israel, the salvation of God, he that should come into the world, the son of God_, and, which I desire by the way to have noted, against the now sect of Arians, _the begotten Son of God_, Acts iii. 13; Heb. v. 5: _The only begotten Son of God_, John i. 14, 18; John iii. 16, 18; 1 John iv. 9: _That he was God_, John i. 1; John xx. 28: _That the fulness of the Godhead dwelt in him bodily_, Coloss. ii. 9: Moreover, _the Holy One, the Holy One of God, the forgiver of sins, that he is risen from the dead_. These are explications, and parts of that general article, that _Jesus is the Christ_. This point therefore, and all the explications thereof are fundamental: as also all such as be evidently inferred from thence; as, BELIEF IN GOD THE FATHER: John xii. 44: _He that believeth in me, believeth not in me, but in him that sent me_; 1 John ii. 23: _He that denieth the Son, hath not the Father_: BELIEF IN GOD THE HOLY GHOST, of whom Christ saith, John xiv. 26: _But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name_: and John xv. 26: _But when the Comforter shall come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth_: BELIEF OF THE SCRIPTURES, by which we believe those points and of the immortality of the soul, without which we cannot believe he is a Saviour.