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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.
To that Mat. 3. [They confessed their sins, 1. He saith, some will have it to imply no verbal Confession but virtual, &c. which gloss carrieth a strong Probability, &c.] Answ. 1. Such presumptuous glossing contradicting the Text upon such inconsiderable reasons (as is the multitude of the baptized) deserves no answer.
2. It is so much the stronger against him, if Baptism be in the very reception a virtual Confession: then no man can be Baptized without it. 2. He addeth, [I require more, an Engagement to leave sin, which their taking on them the name of Christ doth Imply] Answ. If the Engagement be only for some distance of time, it is such as God accepteth not, nor must we: If it be an Engagement to forsake sin from that present time forward, it is withal a plain Profession of present true Repentance or conversion, and consent to leave it, yea renunciation of it, & resolution ⟨p. 62⟩to take it up no more. More to this purpose followeth, which I think contains nothing that requireth any more than what is said already to disable it.
2. It is so much the stronger against him, if Baptism be in the very reception a virtual Confession: then no man can be Baptized without it. 2. He addeth, [I require more, an Engagement to leave sin, which their taking on them the name of Christ doth Imply] Answ. If the Engagement be only for some distance of time, it is such as God accepteth not, nor must we: If it be an Engagement to forsake sin from that present time forward, it is withall a plain Profession of present true Repentance or conversion, and consent to leave it, yea renunciation of it, & resolution ⟨p. 62⟩to take it up no more. More to this purpose followeth, which I think contains nothing that requireth any more than what is said already to disable it.