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

R. B. 1. IF there be any that mistake but in one of those points, when others mistake in them all, those are not the men meant that I speak of. I intended not every man that held your opinion, but only those that held it on the ground and with the worser consequent or defence which I expressed. 2. I shall know whom you mean, when I see the Authors and place in them cited. 3. I think most of our great transmarine Divines who write of it against the Papists, do own that which you acknowledge an error; and what advantage that will give the Papists, who are so ready to take a Confutation of one Doctrine of the Protestants for a Confutation of all, you may easily conjecture. 4. This Conclusion many confess sealed, If thou A. B. do believe, thou shalt be saved: but not this Conclusion, Thou A. B shalt be saved. 5. I have showed you that it is one thing to seal to the Promise for form and matter, and another thing to seal to the persons Right to the thing promised. This actual Right is but the end, which is not obtained, till Delivered or offered; Reception and actual Collation go before; and then is not the subjectum obsignatum. Your argument I conceive doth nothing for your cause, yea is wholly for mine. Your Conclusion is, therefore this the Sacrament sealeth; what is this? why Forgiveness of sins Conditionally, and this to all in Covenant. Here 1. you seem to yield that it is not the Absolute but Conditional Promise which is sealed, which is the main thing that I stood on: 2. You seem to apply the word Conditionally to forgiveness, and n• ⟨p. 130⟩to sealing: and so to confess that the sealing is actual; and if actual, then not merely conditional. For to say I conditionally seal, is to say, It shall be no seal, till the performance of the Condition. But you seem to confess it a seal before of Conditional forgiveness. 3. You seem to acknowledge the general Promise sealed, though with application to particular persons.