Excerpt from A Rational Account of the Grounds of Protestant Religion, Vol. 2: Being a Vindication of the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury's Relation of a Conference, &C. From the Pretended Answer by T. C Christians, which is the owning Christianity as the only true religion and way to eternal happiness. And therefore these lesser societies cannot in justice make the necessary conditions of communion narrower than those which belong to the catho lic church; i. E. Those things which declare men Christians ought to capacitate them for communion with Christians. But here we are to consider, that as to be a Christian sup poseth men's owning the Christian religion to be true, so the conveyance of that religion being to us now in those books we call the scriptures, there must be an acknowledgment of them as the indispensable rule of faith and manners, which is, that these books are the great charter of the Christian society, according to which it must be governed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.