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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
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7. We are certainly bound to believe a sober, credible person of proved fidelity in other things, when he solemnly professeth to Repent and believe; (else we must deny credit to that which beareth plain Evidence of Credibility:) therefore we must believe all others according to the proportion of their Credibility, and not deny them credit without just cause.
8. I never yet heard any assign any other cause why God should require an open profession, than the revealing of the thing professed, and the consequents thereof: therefore, till we hear a proof of some other Reason, we have cause to adhere to this.
9. All men are bound to judge, that God would have no man to tell a lye: therefore they are bound to judge that God would have no man to profess that he Repenteth, when he doth not: therefore, he that is to judge my Profession to be by Gods commanding and approving Will, is also to judge it to be a true Profession: But the Ministers and the Church are (judicio charitatis, & fide humana) to judge, that the Profession of the person is such as God doth require and accept (as to the main substance,) before they baptize him, and receive him into Communion, upon the account of that Profession.