A26886:501
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
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But before we proceed, Mr. Blake's exceptions against some of these arguments from the forecited texts must come under consideration, how little soever they deserve it, pag. 166.
But before we proceed, Mr. Blake's exceptions against some of these •rguments from the forecited texts must come under consideration, how little soever they deserve it, pag. 166.
To what I said from Mat. 28.29.1 [I am very sorry to hear the constitution of visible Churches to suffer the brand of making of counterfeit and half Christians] Answ. For all that I will not be moved with pity to err because you are sorry to hear the truth. 1. Church constitutions make not Christians, of one sort or other ⟨p. 152⟩but contain them when made. 2. And my arguing was to prove that every faithful Pastor must intend the making of sincere Christians, and not only counterfeit or half-Christians. This is a truth that so good a man should not have been sorry to hear. 3. If you mean that visible Churches contain not counterfeit and half-Christians, you might have been sorry long before this to hear both Protestants and Papists say the contrary.
To what I said from Mat. 28.29.1 [I am very sory to hear the constitution of visible Churches to suffer the brand of making of counterfeit and half Christians] Answ. For all that I will not be moved with pity to err because you are sorry to hear the truth. 1. Church constitutions make not Christians, of one sort or other ⟨p. 152⟩but contain them when made. 2. And my arguing was to prove that every faithful Pastor must intend the making of sincere Christians, and not only counterfeit or half-Christians. This is a truth that so good a man should not have been sorry to hear. 3. If you mean that visible Churches contain not counterfeit and half-Christians, you might have been sorry long before this to hear both Protestants and Papists say the contrary.