A26864:616
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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20. God may therefore seal his Promise, and thereupon offer Christ and Life to men that pretended a willingness to Receive it, and yet not actually convey Right to Christ and Life, nor Actually oblige himself to pardon or save the sinner, because the party may refuse the offer, either refusing Sacrament and all, or only Refusing in heart the benefit offered, at lest as such and on the terms that its offered on, and on which only it may be had. And so when the sealing use is past, the Sacrament may lose its Conveying and obliging force (so far as we may say God obligeth himself) for want of true Reception: and thus it doth with all unsound Believers.
20. God may therefore seal his Promise, and thereupon offer Christ and Life to men that pretended a willingness to Receive it, and yet not actually convey Right to Christ and Life, nor Actually oblige himself to pardon or save the sinner, because the partie may refuse the offer, either refusing Sacrament and all, or only Refusing in heart the benefit offered, at lest as such and on the terms that its offered on, and on which only it may be had. And so when the sealing use is past, the Sacrament may lose its Conveying and obliging force (so far as we may say God obligeth himself) for want of true Reception: and thus it doth with all unsound Believers.
I desire the Reader, according to this explanation to understand that which I wrote against Mr. Tombs in my book of Baptism, about the Sacraments sealing to the ungodly.
I desire the Reader, according to this explanation to understand that which I wrote against Mr. Tombes in my book of Baptism, about the Sacraments sealing to the ungodly.
Having said thus much for the opening of my opinion, and the avoiding of Confusion, I return to Mr. Blake's words. And 1. where he saith, The major is not sealed; for the Sacraments seal not to the truth of any general propositions, but they seal with application to particular persons: I Reply, They seal no doubt with respect to particular persons; but that they may not seal both the general Promise and the singular as comprised in it, to that particular person, I hear not yet proved, viz. q. d. Having promised Christ and Life to every one that will Accept him, lest thou shouldst stagger at this my Promise, I own it by this seal. 2. Where he saith, It seals that which supplies the place of the minor; viz. I give thee Christ: I Reply, 1. Its true; because this is no addition to the general Grant, but part