A26886:282
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.
Bullinger in loc. saith [H•nc Christi sententiam omnes penè de Baptismo interpretantur.] Beza believeth, that the Text speaks of Baptism, either Christs, or some other, but rather Christs. Piscator on the text hath these words. [Nam ipsa Baptismi perceptione salutē consequimur: quū non sit institutus nisi ad Remissionem peccatorum sanguine Christi partam, itemque Regenerationem spiritus testandam. — Baptismus additur fidei, non quòd parem rationem ac vim hab•at, sed quòd ad fidem testandam & confirmandam adhibeatur. Ita hìc Baptismus additur spiritui, quod forès testetur id quod spiritus intus peragit] though he rather interpret the Text as Calvin.
Bullinger in loc. saith [H•nc Christi sententiam omnes penè de Baptismo interpretantur.] Beza believeth, that the Text speaks of Baptism, either Christs, or some other, but rather Christs. Piscator on the text hath these words. [Nam ipsa Baptismi perceptione salutē consequimur: quū non sit institutus nisi ad Remissionem peccatorum sanguine Christi partam, itemque Regenerationem spiritus testandam. — Baptismus additur fidei, non quòd parem rationem ac vim hab•at, sed quòd ad fidem testandam & confirmandam adhibeatur. Ita hìc Baptismus additur spiritui, quod forès testetur id quod spiritus intus peragit] though he rather interpret the Text as Calvin.
I have showed before from Mar. 1.4. and other places, that Johns Baptism was for Remission of sins; that is, (saith Gataker) to seal us the pardon which we have received. And if ⟨p. 84⟩the very Scripture description of it was [The Baptism of Repentance for Remission of sins] then it was not an accidental or separable use, as to the Intention which the Administrator and Receiver are bound to. And justly doth Beza in