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

Prop. 4. If it shall after be discovered that the party had no proper right, but that the Church was mistaken in their judgement, it will not follow that therefore the external Baptism was or is Null, or to be re-administered, though it reacheth not its main ends.

Prop. 4. If it shall after be discovered that the party had no proper right, but that the Church was mistaken in their judgement, it will not follow that therefore the external Baptism was or is Null, or to be re-administred, though it reacheth not its main ends.

Prop. 5. Infidels, Heathens, Turks, are obliged to seek to be baptized, and to receive the Lords Supper; that is, to become true Believers, and then to seek and receive the Sacraments.

Prop. 6. When the Church administereth Sacraments to Hypocrites, as they do but their duty, so God approveth their action, as knowing they do their duty: And therefore so far as that comes to the improper Right Coram Ecclesià, is also Coram Deo. As in the foresaid Comparison: If the Physician knew his Patient to dissemble, that he might have his Cordial, and the Apothecary did not know it, the Physician will justify his Apothecary in his Administration. So will God justify the foresaid Administration of his Sacraments, and ⟨p. 356⟩acknowledge the Hypocrite to be the Object of our just tradition.

Prop. 6. When the Church administreth Sacraments to Hypocrites, as they do but their duty, so God approveth their action, as knowing they do their duty: And therefore so far as that comes to the improper Right Coram Ecclesià, is also Coram Deo. As in the foresaid Comparison: If the Physitian knew his P•tient to dissemble, that he might have his Cordial, and the Apothecary did not know it, the Physitian will justifie his Apothecary in his Administration. So will God justifie the foresaid Administration of his Sacraments, and