A26864:501
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. 9. If the Apostles use to communicate the proper Titles of the Justified to all that are Baptized, (till they see them prove apostates or hypocrites) then they did take all the Baptized to be probably justified (though they might know that there were hypocrites among them, yet either they knew them not, or might not denominate the body from a few that they did know) But the Antecedent is true; therefore.
I need not cite Scriptures to prove that the baptized are called by the Apostles, Believers, Saints, Disciples, Christians: Mr. Blake hath done it already, chap. 28. Now who knows not that salvation is made the Portion of Believers, Saints, Disciples? But what, is it another sort of them? or doth Scripture use to divide Saints, as the Genus into two Species? Not that I know of; It is but as an aequivocum in sua aequivocata: The Apostles naming men according to their appearance and Profession, and calling them such as they probably might be. ⟨p. 100⟩Why else should they call them such, had not they seemed to be such, and professed it? The names therefore do not primarily agree to these as a true Species of Believers, Saints, Disciples, Christians; but secondarily, as the name of a man to a Corps, or as the name of a Habit to a disposition, by translation, or Analogy.
I need not cite Scriptures to prove that the baptized are called by the Apostles, Believers, Saints, Disciples, Christians: Mr. Blake hath done it already, chap. 28. Now who knows not that salvation is made the Portion of Believers, Saints, Disciples? But what, is it another sort of them? or doth Scripture use to divide Saints, as the Genus into two Species? Not that I know of; It is but as an aequivocum in sua aequivocata: The Apostles naming men according to their appearance and Profession, and calling them such as they probably might be. ⟨p. 100⟩Why else should they call them such, had not they seemed to be such, and professed it? The names therefore do not primarily agree to these as a true Species of Believers, Saints, Disciples, Christians; but secondarily, as the name of a man to a Corps, or as the name of a Habit to a disposition, by translation, or Analogie.