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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.
1. A man that (not inconsiderately, or in a Temptation but) deliberately and obstinately denieth any fundamental Article of the Christian faith, is notoriously ungodly: for he cannot have a godly heart, that excludeth the necessary principles of ⟨p. 339⟩Godliness from his head. I mean those Truths without which there is no salvation; for surely without them there can be no Grace. He that denieth thus the God head, or the Goodness, Wisdom, or Power of God; or the Incarnation, Holiness, Death, Ransom of man thereby, Resurrection, Rule, or Judgement of Jesus Christ, or the everlasting life that he giveth to Believers, or the necessity of our holiness and Obedience to him: He that denieth the Holy Ghost, the Truth of his Miracles by which he sealed Christs Doctrine, or the necessity of his Sanctification: this man is Notoriously ungodly, if he Notoriously deny these: for he professeth ungodliness it self; So doth he that denieth Christ hath any Church on earth, and that denieth to have communion with his Church.
2. That man is notoriously ungodly, that is notoriously utterly ignorant of God and his son Jesus Christ, of the Goodness, Wisdom or Power of God; of the Incarnation, Death and Resurrection of Christ, and his Redemption of us hereby: of the necessity of Faith and Holiness, and of the evil of sin, and of the everlasting blessedness that is promised to the Saints. I will now only say, (excluding not the rest) that the Ignorance of any one of these is inconsistent with true Godliness. But I must tell you anon, that there is need of much wariness in judging of such Ignorance.
2. That man is notoriously ungodly, that is notoriously utterly ignorant of God and his son Jesus Christ, of the Goodness, Wisdom or Power of God; of the Incarnation, Death and Resurection of Christ, and his Redemption of us hereby: of the necessity of Faith and Holiness, and of the evil of sin, and of the everlasting blessedness that is promised to the Saints. I will now only say, (excluding not the rest) that the Ignorance of any one of these is inconsistent with true Godliness. But I must tell you anon, that there is need of much wariness in judgeing of such Ignorance.