Rich. Baxters apology against the modest exceptions of Mr. T. Blake and the digression…

then it is the end of Baptism, to Seal the present Remission of sin: But &c. therefore, Tit. 3.5. He saved us by the washing of Regeneration: It is a saving work that Baptism is appointed to do. By Regeneration I understand, our new Relative state, at least principally. He that is in Christ is a new creature; old things are passed away; behold all things are become new. He hath a new head, is a member of a new society, the old guilt of sin is done away, the old enmity between God and us; we have a new Father, new brethren, new right to farther blessings, as well as a new heart. Regeneration is too narrowly taken for a Renovation of the heart alone. So that I think Remission and Reconciliation and Adoption, are meant by Regeneration, in Tit. 3.5. and Col. 2.11, 12. The speaking of Baptism, and the heart-circumcision therein received or professed, saith, they put off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, being buried with him in Baptism, &c. So in 2 Pet. 1.9. The Apostle saith, He that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see far off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins: that is Sacramentally, and as far as the Church could go in purifying him: which shows that the end of Baptism is (by obsignation and solemnization) to purge men from their old sins▪ or as Paul speaks, The sins that are past, through the forbearance of God, &c. Rom. 5. So that Remission of sins at present, being the end of Baptism rightly received, it must needs follow that Justifying faith is prerequisite to the right receiving it, and that it is not some other Faith, nor is it enough to promise Justifying Faith for hereafter.

then it is the end of Baptism, to Seal the present Remission of sin: But &c. therefore, Tit. 3.5. He saved us by the washing of Regeneration: It is a saving work that Baptism is appointed to do. By Regeneration I understand, our new Relative state, at least principally. He that is in Christ is a new creature; old things are passed away; behold all things are become new. He hath a new head, is a member of a new societie, the old guilt of sin is done away, the old enmity between God and us; we have a new Father, new brethren, new right to farther blessings, as well as a new heart. Regeneration is too narrowly taken for a Renovation of the heart alone. So that I think Remission and Reconciliation and Adoption, are meant by Regeneration, in