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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.
2. The first and most famous signification of the word Saints or Sanctified in the new Testament, is only of them that are in heart devoted to Christ by true faith: therefore the borrowed or Analogical, or less proper signification (call it what you list) must be of that which hath the likeness or appearance of this; and that is only the profession of it, and not the profession of another thing.
3. Let us peruse the texts, and see whether it be not a special Saint-ship which Paul ascribeth to these, and therefore as to appearance and Profession, they had! 1 Cor. 6.11. [such were some of you; but ye are washed, ye are sanctified, ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the spirit of our God] and that sanctification which is joined with justification, which is wrought by the spirit of God cleansing men from their former reigning sins, which else would have kept them out of the Kingdom of God, and which was in them that must judge Angels. ver. 3. was a special saving sanctification. But such did this seem to Paul which he speaketh of, as is expressed in the Text: therefore there must needs be at least a Profession of this.
3. Let us peruse the texts, and see whether it be not a special Saint-ship which Paul ascribeth to these, and therefore as to appearance and Profession, they had! 1 Cor. 6.11. [such were some of you; but ye are washed, ye are sanctified, ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the spirit of our God] and that sanctification wh•ch is joyned with justification, which is wrought by the spirit of God cleansing men from their former reigning sins, which else would have kept them out of the Kingdom of God, and which was in them that must judge Angels. ver. 3. was a special saving sanctification. But such did this seem to Paul which he speaketh of, as is exprest in the Text: therefore there must needs be at least a Profession of this.