A26864:478
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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Argu. 2. My Second Argument shall be from the Testimony and Practice of the purest Antiquity. 1▪ Justin Martyr in his second Apology, relating the Churches custom in Baptizing, saith, As many as being persuaded do believe these things to be true which we teach, and do promise to live according to them, they first learn by prayer and fasting to beg pardon of God for their former sins, our selves also joining our prayer and fasting: Then they are brought to the water and born again, in the same way as we our selves were born again: So for the other Sacrament he addeth, This food we call the Eucharist▪ to which no man is admitted, but he that believeth the Truth of our Doctrine, being washed in the Laver of Regeneration, for Remission of sin, and that so liveth as Christ hath taught.
Argu. 2. My Second Argument shall be from the Testimony and Practice of the purest Antiquity. 1▪ Justin Martyr in his second Apologie, relating the Churches custom in Baptizing, saith, As many as being perswaded do believe these things to be true which we teach, and do promise to live according to them, they first learn by prayer and fasting to beg pardon of God for their former sins, our selves also joyning our prayer and fasting: Then they are brought to the water and born again, in the same way as we our selves were born again: So for the other Sacrament he addeth, This food we call the Eucharist▪ to which no man is admitted, but he that believeth the Truth of our Doctrine, being washed in the Laver of Regeneration, for Remission of sin, and that so liveth as Christ hath taught.
2. Irenaeus l. 4. c. 13. shows that Abraham's Faith by which he was justified, is the same with the Christian Faith, yea with that whereby we begin to be saved. And cap. 76. having reference to the Baptismal Covenant, wherein men deliver up themselves to Christ, he saith, Si igitur tradideris ei quod tuum est, id est, fidem in eum & subjectionem, percipies ejus artem, & eris perfectum Dei opus: si autem non credideris ei, & fugeris manus ejus, erit Causa in te, &c. Ille enim misit qui vocarent ad Nuptias; qui autem non obedierunt ei semetipsos privarunt regiâ caenâ.