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ARTICLE VI.
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What other ground is there for believing it?

It was held in the primitive Church without contradiction and for many hundreds of years.

In what sense does the Article assert that Holy Scripture contains all things necessary for salvation?

"That whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required to be believed as an Article of the Faith, or to be thought requisite or necessary for salvation."

For what class of persons in the Church is this direction principally intended?

For those who teach and govern.

In what sense is the term "of any man" to be taken?

By any man.

In what manner may those who teach and govern in the Church require persons to believe and think in any particular manner?

By censuring them, or depriving them of Church privileges, if they do not so believe or think.

How can they know what they believe or think?

When they either deny the truth or necessity of what they are taught, or act so as to show that they do not receive it as true or necessary.

How far does the Article affect the members of the Church generally?

It shows that they cannot, according to the principles of the Church, be censured or debarred from Christian privileges for disbelieving or refusing to