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Certain disputations of right to sacraments, and the true nature of visible Christianity defending…
Certain disputations of right to sacraments, and the true nature of visible Christianity defending them against several sorts of opponents, especially against the second assault of that pious, reverend and dear brother Mr. Thomas Blake / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1658
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Ans. 1. I deny the Major. Because some Church-members are in such a condition as that the first thing you are bound to do with them, is to cast them out, (or suspend them till then) When you are bound presently to cast him out, you are not at the same time to give him the Sacrament of the Lords Supper, nor his Infants on his account the Sacrament of Baptism.
Indeed if they had Right to Church-membership, their Infants might have so too.
2 I deny the Minor. Other ungodly persons are visible members: but notorious ungodly ones are not, They are pso jure excommunicate, not merely as meriting i•, but on the Notoriousness of their incapacity, and the pleasure of the Legislator, as is afore declared.
2 I deny the Minor. Other ungodly persons are visible members: but notorious ungodly ones are not, They are pso jure excommunicate, not meerly as m•riting i•, but on the Notoriousness of their incapacity, and the pleasure of the Legislator, as is afore declared.