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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 its an unhappy confusion that Mr. Blake is guilty of almost all along, while he pleadeth against the Interest of the Regenerate only in the Sacraments, that he confoundeth most commonly the Professors of Justifying Faith and holiness, with his Professors of a faith short of Justifying; and thus in his ⟨p. 123⟩arguing against Mr. Hooker and Galaspie, and others, carrieth on the matter in the dark; as if these were all one, or the arguments will serve for the one that will serve for the other; which is merely to lose his own and his Readers labour, or leave him deceived, which is worse: How many leaves of that volume, and his former of the covenants, are guilty of this dark misleading work?
And its an unhappy confusion that Mr. Blake is guilty of almost all along, while he pleadeth against the Interest of the Regenerate only in the Sacraments, that he confoundeth most commonly the Professors of Justifying Faith and holiness, with his Professors of a faith short of Justifying; and thus in his ⟨p. 123⟩arguing against Mr. Hooker and Galaspie, and others, carrieth on the matter in the dark; as if these were all one, or the arguments will serve for the one that will serve for the other; which is meerly to lose his own and his Readers labour, or leave him deceived, which is worse: How many leaves of that volumn, and his former of the covenants, are guilty of this dark misleading work?
I could willingly here answer his Arguments for unregenerate mens right to this Sacrament; but 1. I shall meet with much more about their pretended right to baptism anon, and the answer of those will serve for both. 2. And he hath so mixed the two Cases (of Professors of saving faith and of not saving) together, that if I deal with him on the later, he may say, he speaks of the former.
I could willingly here answer his Arguments for unregenerate mens right to this Sacrament; but 1. I shall meet with much more about their pretended right to baptism anon, and the answer of those will serve for both. 2. And he hath so mixt the two Cases (of Professors of saving faith and of not saving) together, that if I deal with him on the later, he may say, he speaks of the former.