A26886:428
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.
The 8•h. Argument is [That ordinance which is not appointed to work Faith,1 is no converting ordinance: but &c.] Faith comes by hearing,] &c. To which Mr. Blake answers that reading and seeing Miracles may also convert, and so may Sacraments as not being opposite but subordinate.] I reply. Hearing as the chiefest way of Reception, is put for all the rest: It is the ⟨p. 130⟩word heard or read, or some way received, that is the appointed means of Conversion. Its possible the Sacrament may be a means too: but give us as good proof that it was appointed to that use, or may be used to that end purposely by the unconverted, as we shall prove the same of the Word, and you shall carry the Cause.
The 8•h. Argument is [That ordinance which is not appointed to work Faith,1 is no coverting ordinance: but &c.] Faith comes by hearing,] &c. To which Mr. Blake answers that reading and seeing Miracles may also convert, and so may Sacraments as not being opposite but subordinate.] I reply. Hearing as the chiefest way of Reception, is put for all the rest: It is the ⟨p. 130⟩word heard or read, or some way received, that is the appointed means of Conversion. Its possible the Sacrament may be a means too: but give us as good proof that it was appointed to that use, or may be used to that end purposely by the unconverted, as we shall prove the same of the Word, and you shall carry the Cause.
- 1Argum. 8. defended.
The ninth Argument is,1