A26864:527
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. 20. If the man without the wedding Garment, had coram Deo Right to be there, then would not the Lord have challenged him therein with a friend, how camest thou in hither, not having on a wedding Garment? If you will help him that was speechless to an answer, and say for him, Lord, he was compelled to come in all thy command; I Reply, He that compelled him by invitation, did not only bid him come, but to come, not only to come in, but to come in as a Guest should, to honour and not disgrace the Feast. At lest it should have been known as implied. It was no unrevealed thing.
Argu. 20. If the man without the wedding Garment, had coram Deo Right to be there, then would not the Lord have challenged him therein with a friend, how camest thou in hither, not having on a wedding Garment? If you will help him that was speechless to an answer, and say for him, Lord, he was compelled to come in al thy command; I Reply, He that compelled him by invitation, did not only bid him come, but to come, not only to come in, but to come in as a Guest should, to honor and not disgrace the Feast. At lest it should have been known as implyed. It was no unrevealed thing.
Argu. 21. If Circumcision were the Seal of the Righteousness of Faith, even a Justifying Faith already in being; then so is Baptism; but the former is certain, Rom. 4.11, 12. He received the sign of Circumcision, a Seal of the Righteousness of the Faith, which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the Father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised, that Righteousness might be imputed to them also. The last words confirm the consequence also.
Argu. 22. Many texts of Scripture show that it was Justifying Faith that was by God required in the aged in baptism: which I will cite together, and not stand to fetch an argument from each alone.