A26864:418
Rich. Baxters apology against the modest exceptions of Mr. T. Blake and the digression…
Rich. Baxters apology against the modest exceptions of Mr. T. Blake and the digression of Mr. G. Kendall whereunto is added animadversions on a late dissertation of Ludiomæus Colvinus, aliaà Ludovicus Molinæs̳, M. Dr. Oxon, and an admonition of Mr. W. Eyre of Salisbury : with Mr. Crandon's Anatomy for satisfaction of Mr. Caryl.
London: printed by A.M. for Thomas Underhill, 1654
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.
§. 42.
R. B. But you take it for granted that we do so; which is too easy disputing. We give the Seal of Baptism to all that seem sound Believers, and their seed; and we say, the Seal of the sanctifying Spirit, is only theirs that Are such Believers. But if you speak only of Covenant-Right to Baptism, Coram Deo, by his gift of Covenant, then I make them of the same extent: supposing that by the Seal of the Spirit, you mean somewhat common to every true believer. 3. But if it be the formalis Ratio of Sealing that you look at, I say, God sealeth to the wicked his Covenant or Promise as it is made to them, (of which before): He sealed the conditional Covenant, which they seemed to Accept, (which if they had not seemed to Accept, he would not have commanded the annexing of the Seal): and so God may be said to do it, in that he commandeth his Ministers to do it. But it is not such a sealing, as leaves God actually obliged to fulfil the promise, as he is to them that perform the condition. But of this more in its own place.
R. B. BUt you take it for granted that we do so; which is too easie disputing. We give the Seal of Baptism to all that seem sound Believers, and their seed; and we say, the Seal of the sanctifying Spirit, is onely theirs that Are such Believers. But if you speak onely of Covenant-Right to Baptism, Coram Deo, by his gift of Covenant, then I make them of the same extent: supposing that by the Seal of the Spirit, you mean somewhat common to every true believer. 3. But if it be the formalis Ratio of Sealing that you look at, I say, God sealeth to the wicked his Covenant or Promise as it is made to them, (of which before): He sealed the conditional Covenant, which they seemed to Accept, (which if they had not seemed to Accept, he would not have commanded the annexing of the Seal): and so God may be said to do it, in that he commandeth his Ministers to do it. But it is not such a sealing, as leaves God actually obliged to fulfill the promise, as he is to them that perform the condition. But of this more in its own place.