A26864:625
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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R. B. 1. TO your Argument there needs no more to be said then is said to the former. When God hath in one Deed of Gift bestowed on us Christ and Life, Remission, Justification, Adoption, &c. (1 Joh. 5.10, 11, 12. Joh. 1.11, 12.) it must be in case of great ignorance that the person that knows that God giveth him Christ, must yet be constrained by after arguings to acknowledge that he giveth him Justification. And how this argument tends to explain the nature of Sacramental sealing, I neither know, nor see any thing here to help me to know. If you will suppose such an Argument as this used for Application, I would not stick to yield it useful; What God doth by his Testament give to all men▪ on condition they will Accept it, that he gives to me on condition I will Accept it. But he gives Christ and Life in him, to all men if they will Accept it; therefore to me: (Or if you will say, to all that hear the Gospel.) Though the use of such an Argument is more for lively Application, then confirmation of the Truth of the Grant.
2. Your supposition that your minor is sealed, and not your major, hath enough said to it.
3. The Sacraments may confirm your faith in Christ as given to you, otherwise then by sealing, viz. as they are signs for Remembrance, Excitation to sense and lively apprehensions of Gods Donation, and as they are signs instrumental in sole Conveyance of the benefit Given, as a twig and a turf, and a Key in giving possession, and the words and actions of matrimonial solemnization or Contract.