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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
THE PAPERS That passed between the COMMISSIONERS Appointed by his M… › CONFIRMATION.
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.
CONFIRMATION.
[It is evident that the meaning of these words is,1 that Children baptized, & dying before they commit actual sin, are undoubtedly saved, though they be not confirmed; wherein we see not what danger there can be of misleading the vulgar, by teaching them truth; but there may be danger in this desire of having these words wronged, as if they were false; for St. Austin says he is an Infidel that defies them to be true, Ep. 23. ad Bonif.
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Rep. What, all Children saved, whether they be Children of the Promise or no? Or can you show us a Text that saith (Whoever is ⟨p. 119⟩baptized, shall be saved,) the Common-Prayer-Book plainly speaks of the non-necessity of Unction, Confirmation, and other Popish Ceremonies and Sacraments, and meaneth that ex parte Ecclesiae, they have all things necessary to salvation, and are undoubtedly saved, supposing them the due subjects, and that nothing be wanting ex parte sui, which certainly is not the case of such as are not Children of the Promise, and Covenant; the Child of an Heathen doth not ponere obicem, actually, quo minus baptizetur, and yet being baptized, is not saved on your own reckoning, (as we understand you) therefore the Parent can penere obicem, and either hinder the Baptism or effect, to his Infant; Austin speaks not there of all Children whatever, but those that are offered per aliorum spiritualem voluntatem, by the Parents usually, or by those that own them after the Parents be dead, or they exposed, or become theirs: He speaks also of what may be done, & de eo qui fieri non posse arbitratur: But our question is, what is done, and not what God can do: Our great question is, what Children they be that Baptism belongeth to?