Certain disputations of right to sacraments, and the true nature of visible Christianity defending…

THESIS Ministers m•y admit persons into the visible Church of Christ, by Baptism, upon the bare Verbal Profession of the true Christian saving faith (such as before described) without staying for or searching after any further Evidences of sincerity, (ordinarily, and as of necessity to this end.) This Proposition I prove (in short) by these Arguments following.

THESIS Mi•isters m•y admit pers•ns into the visible Church of Christ, by B•ptism, upon the bare Verbal Profession of the true Christian saving faith (such as before described) without staying for or searching after any further Evidences of sincerity, (ordinarily, and as of necessity to this end.) This Proposition I prove (in short) by these Arguments following.

Argum. 1. We have the warrant of their approved Example in Scripture whom we are to eye as our Pattern in Administrations for the administering of Baptism upon a bare Verbal Profession: therefore we may so Administer it.

Argum. 1. We have the warrant of their approved Example in Scripture whom we are to eye as our Pattern in Administrations for the administring of Baptism upon a bare Verbal Profession: therefore we may so Administer it.

I here suppose the Practice of the Church before Christs Incarnation; which is out of all doubt: Moses took the Verbal profession of all Israel, to be a Covenant between God and them; wherein they avouched the Lord to be their God, and God avouched them to be his people. On the like terms did Joshua, Asa, and others renew the Covenant of God with that people; and on the same terms was circumcision administered. On these terms did John Baptize multitudes, whose lives he knew not before, and of whom he required no further Evidence than these present Professions to satisfy him of their capacity. On the same ground did Peters Converts receive their Baptism,