A26853:612
An account of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persuasions appointedAn accompt of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persvvasions appointed
An account of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persuasions appointed by His Sacred Majesty, according to letters patent, for the review of the Book of common prayer, &c.An accompt of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persvvasions appointed by His Sacred Majesty, according to letters patent, for the review of the Book of common prayer, &c.
London : s.n., 1661
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Sect. 6. Page 24.
[Receive remission of sins by spiritual Regeneration, most proper for Baptism is our spiritual Regeneration, St. John 3. unless a man be born again of water and the spirit, &c. And by this is received remission of Sins, Acts 2. 3. Repent and be Baptized every one of you, for the remission of sins; So the Creed; one Baptism for the remission of sins.]
Repl. Baptism as an outward Administration, is our visible Sacramental Regeneration: Baptism as containing with the Sign, the thing signified, is our spiritual real Regeneration. As we are Regenerated before Baptism, (as you know adult Believers are) so we cannot pray to receive remission of sins by that same Regeneration renewed. As we are regenerated really in Baptism, that Regeneration and Remission are conjunct benefits: But if Baptism at once give Regeneration and Remission, it follows not that it gives Remission by Regeneration: But as Regeneration comprehendeth the whole change (real or Physical, and […]) so we acknowledge, that as the part is given by the whole, ⟨p. 115⟩you may say that remission is given by regeneration, but more s••ly in it than by it; but we are not willing to make more ado about words than needs.
Repl. Baptism as an outward Administration, is our visible Sacramental Regeneration: Baptism as containing with the Sign, the thing signified, is our spiritual real Regeneration. As we are Regenerated before Baptism, (as you know adult Believers are) so we cannot pray to receive remission of sins by that same Regeneration renewed. As we are regenerated really in Baptism, that Regeneration and Remission are conjunct benefits: But if Baptism at once give Regeneration and Remission, it follows not that it gives Remission by Regeneration: But as Regeneration comprehendeth the whole change (real or Physical, and ) so we acknowledge, that as the part is given by the whole,