A26864:437
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
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§. 46.
Mr. Bl. Here it is objected: 1. When Christ saith▪ Make me Disciples of all Nations baptizing them, he meant sincere Disciples, though we cannot ever know them to be sincere. I Answer, In Case I make this first Objection brought against me, my seventh and last Argument for me, it will fully discover the weakness of it; and thus I form it. All that are Disciples unto Christ, and made Disciples for Christ, are to be baptized: But some are made Disciples to Christ, that are short of Faith saving and justifying, as hath been proved at large: This Discipleship that Christ here mentions, is such of which whole Nations are in capacity, as is plain in the Commission; to which this Nation (with others) hath happily attained according to the manifold Prophesies before cited: Of these the whole Universal visible Church consisteth, so irrefragably proved by Mr. Hudson in his Treatise of that subject, and his Vindication. Now if whole Nations, yea the whole Universal Visible Church (consisting of discipled Nations) were all Believers, it were a great happiness; the Election would be as large as Vocation, when Christ saith, Many are called, but few chosen.
Mr. Bl. HEre it is objected: 1. When Christ saith▪ Make me Disciples of all Nations baptizing them, he meant sincere Disciples, though we cannot ever know them to be sincere. I Answer, In Case I make this first Objection brought against me, my seventh and last Argument for me, it will fully discover the weakness of it; and thus I form it. All that are Disciples unto Christ, and made Disciples for Christ, are to be baptized: But some are made Disciples to Christ, that are short of Faith saving and justifying, as hath been proved at large: This Discipleship that Christ here mentions, is such of which whole Nations are in capacity, as is plain in the Commission; to which this Nation (with others) hath happily attained according to the manifold Prophesies before cited: Of these the whole Ʋniversal visible Church consisteth, so irrefragably proved by Mr. Hudson in his Treatise of that subject, and his Vindication. Now if whole Nations, yea the whole Ʋniversal Visible Church (consisting of discipled Nations) were all Believers, it were a great happiness; the Election would be as large as Vocation, when Christ saith, Many are called, but few chosen.