Question 30

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Do such then believe in Jesus the only Saviour, who seek their salvation and happiness of saints, of themselves, or anywhere else?

They do not; for though they boast of him in words, yet in deeds they deny Jesus the only deliverer and Saviour;^a for one of these two things must be true, that either Jesus is not a complete Saviour; or that they, who by a true faith receive this Saviour, must find all things in him necessary to their salvation.^b

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Commentary

Jeremias Bastingius, A Catechisme of Christian Religion, with the Arguments and Use (1591), on this question
Zacharias Ursinus, The Summe of Christian Religion (1587), on this question
Zacharias Ursinus, The Summe of Christian Religion (1587), on Q. 29–30

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