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

For the Consequence; if Mr. Blake mean, that it is any space of time after baptism that we engage to begin our justifying Faith in, then the consequence is undeniable: for till then, the person is unjustified. But if he mean that in baptism they must engage to believe to Justification in the same instant of time, then this is to make such Faith necessary in the instant of baptism; and this is but an evident vanity, to suppose a man not believing to justification, who yet can and must promise to do it in the same instant, or the next.

For the Consequence; if Mr. Blake mean, that it is any space of time after baptism that we engage to begin our justifying Faith in, then the consequence is undenyable: for till then, the person is unjustified. But if he mean that in baptism they must engage to believe to Justification in the same instant of time, then this is to make such Faith necessary in the instant of baptism; and this is but an evident vanity, to suppose a man not believing to justification, who yet can and must promise to do it in the same instant, or the next.

Argu. 16. If it be only true justifying Faith that gives men right coram Deo (by vertue of his Covenant) to the Sacrament of the Lords Sup••r▪ and so be prerequisite to that Sacrament, and not only to be promised for •he future; then the same may be said of baptism. But the Antecedent is true; therefore.

The consequence is proved, 1. In that the Sacraments are both Seals of the same Covenant. 2. It is right to Church-privileges in general that Mr. Bl. ascribes to his Dogmatical Faith, and therefore to one Sacrament as well as the other. For the Antecedent, I think our brethren that would so fain keep the Church and Ordinances pure, would hardly admit a man to the Lords Table, that they were sure did not take Christ for his Lord, or that would say, I believe all the Creed and Word of God, but I will not have Christ Reign over me at the present, but I promise that hereafter. I will see Doctor Drake against Mr. Humphrey, whether they would admit such. Hierom argues thus, from Baptism, to the Administration of the Lords Supper: therefore I may do it as to the receiving Quamobrem oro te utaut sacrificandi ei licentiam tribuas cujus baptisma probas, aut reprobes ejus baptisma, quem non existimas sacerdotem. Neque enim fieri potest, ut qui in baptismate sanctus est, sit apud altare peccator. Hier. Dialog. adv. Luciferian.