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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.
And whether it be not the Promise of a justifying faith that Mr Blake takes up with, besides his faith short of justifying, read his Books, and censure as you find cause.
But yet if Mr Blake, be really of my mind, I have no mind to persuade the world that he is not, nor reason so to do; but when I know it from himself, I shall heartily rejoice in the closure. For I am confident it is in love of Truth that both of us do dispute; and therefore if Truth get by it, we have our ends.
But yet if Mr Blake, be really of my mind, I have no mind to perswade the world that he is not, nor reason so to do; but when I know it from himself, I shall heartily rejoyce in the closure. For I am confident it is in love of Truth that both of us do dispute; and therefore if Truth get by it, we have our ends.
For my part, I must still say, that if I took [a Dogmatical faith it self, or any short of justifying] for the Title and necessary qualifications of them that I must admit, I would baptize none, because I cannot know who hath that Dogmatical faith, and who not. And I still find that even wise and pious men are oft as far to seek for the truth of their Assent as of their Consent, and would give a world that they were but certain that they truly Believe the truth of the Gospel. And I am sure that I am as far to seek for assurance ⟨image 16⟩of the one as of the other in those that I examine, in order to the baptizing of their Infants.