A26886:1044
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.
Answ. 1. Prove the Antecedent. 2. The question is not what men mis-judged them, but how God esteemed or pronounced them. 3. God would not have them to be Church-members, while such, whom he commanded the Magistrate to put to death. But, &c. Ergo.
Obj They were not to be excommunicate or put away from the Passover. Answ. 1. He that is stoned to death is excommunicate and put away from the Passover. He that is cut off from the living, is put out of the Church on earth. 2. I will not waste time to prove Jewish excommunication, till I know of some tolerable answer given to that which Mr, Gilespie (beside many others) hath written so largely already.
Argum. 3. Infants in Covenant have right to Baptism The Infants of Notorious Ungodly Parents are in Covenant. Ergo.
Ans. I have in my account to Mr. Blake, told you so fully, how far they are in Covenant, and how far not, that I must refer you thither, and not here recite it. I deny that God is actually engaged to them in the covenant of Grace, which Baptism sealeth; but conditionally only, and so he is to Infidels that persecute