A26864:481
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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4. Tertullian Apolog. cap. 44. Speaking how the Heathens were fain to punish one another in Prisons and houses of Corrections, adds, Nemo illic Christianus, nisi plane tantum Christianus, aut si & aliud, jam non Christianus; No Christian comes there unless merely because he is a Christian: or if otherwise (i. e. as a wicked liver) then he is no Christian. And de Baptismo, he saith, (cap. 6.) Ita & angelus baptismi arbiter superventuro spiritui sancto vias dirigit ablutione delictorum quam fides impetrat, obsignata in Patre & Filio & spiritu sancto. Many places might be cited in him, that show, they took the Baptized for justified Believers.
4. Tertullian Apolog. cap. 44. Speaking how the Heathens were fain to punish one another in Prisons and houses of Corrections, addes, Nemo illic Christianus, nisi plane tantum Christianus, aut si & aliud, jam non Christianus; No Christian comes there unless meerly because he is a Christian: or if otherwise (i. e. as a wicked liver) then he is no Christian. And de Baptismo, he saith, (cap. 6.) Ita & angelus baptismi arbiter superventuro spiritui sancto vias dirigit ablutione delictorum quam fides impetrat, obsignata in Patre & Filio & spiritu sancto. Many places might be cited in him, that shew, they took the Baptized for justified Believers.
5. Cyprian Epist. 23. Nam cum Dominus dixerit in nomine Patris, Filii & Spiritus ⟨p. 96⟩sancti gentes tingi, & in Baptismo, praeterita peccata dimitti, &c. And Epist. 2. §. 2. Sed postquam unde genitalis auxilio superioris aevi labe detersa, in expiatum pectus ac purum desuper see lumen infudit, postquam caelitus spiritu hausto in novum me hominem Nativitas Secunda reparavit, &c. But it is so well known a Case, that Antiquity runs wholly this way, that I think I may spare the labour of transcribing any more. I had at hand the full testimonies of Clemens Alexand. Origen, Epiphanius, Athanasius, Lactantius, Nazianzen, Nyssen, Basil, Cyril of Alexandria, Cyril of Jerusalem, Synesius, Hierom, Macarius, Eusebius, with divers others, which I now cast by as tedious and unnecessary, but shall produce quickly, if I once find it of any use. Yet two or three brief ones I will add, which show that it is the Covenanting or Professing of true Obedience, and consequently of a lively working Faith that is required, and not the profession of an unsound faith only.