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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.
For that this Profession did go before, is proved already, and then the rest can be no more then the continuance of Repentance and exercise of it in newness of life, which they are engaged to for the future. Only if any falsely profess it at present, his own confession is an engagement to it as a duty. Grotius saith that [[Greek or Hebrew] potest non incommode exponi hoc modo, B•ptizo vos super professione poenitentiae quam facitis] The plain meaning it is in a word [I do by baptism initiate you into the state of Repentance, or of Penitents; but Christ shall give the Holy-Ghost (as it was poured forth.) And so (as Pelargus speaks on Mat. 3. against Salmeron) we maintain Johns baptism to be effectual, being the baptism of Repentance to Remission of sin. And that it was true Repentance that he required, appeareth further by the fruits of it tha• he calleth for from the Pharisees, Mat. 3.6, 7, 8, 9 Lastly, I shall prove anon that God hath not appointed us to baptize any upon a promise of Repentance or faith, before they profess actual faith and Repentance, nor are they fit for such a covenant.
For that this Profession did go before, is proved already, and then the rest can be no more then the continuance of Repentance and exercise of it in newness of life, which they are engaged to for the future. Only if any falsly profess it at present, his own confession is an engagement to it as a duty. Grotiu• saith that [〈non-Latin alphabet〉 potest non incommode exponi hoc modo, B•ptizo vos super professione poenitentiae quam facitis] The plain meaning it is in a word [I do by baptism initiate you into the state of Repentance, or of Penitents; but Christ shall give the Holy-Ghost (as it was poured forth.) And so (as Pelargus speaks on Mat. 3. against Salmeron) we maintain Johns baptisme to be •ffectual, being the baptism of Repentance to Remission of sin. And that it was true Repentance that he required, appeareth further by the fruits of it tha he calleh for from the Pharisees,