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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.
What you mention out of Ames of taking stones out of the quarry, to polish, &c. is nothing to the purpose. Baptizing them is not polishing them, that is, preparing them for conversion, according to the Institution; but its the placing polished stones in the building: To polish them for the building, is to make them true Disciples, and not Professors of another kind of faith. P•g 168. When I say that to be Christs Disciples is to be one that unfeignedly takes him for his Master, &c. You answer, that [This is true as to the inheritance of Heaven, but not as to the inheritance of Ordinances: The Jew outwardly was not thus qualified.] Repl. 1. Our question is, what is a Disciple? and whats your answer to that, unless you distinguish of two sorts, and mean that another sort there are that inherit Ordinances? 2. And then I say further, some Ordinances are without the Church, and those may have them that are no Disciples; and f•r those proper to the Church, none have right to them but who at least profess the foresaid Discipleship I wonder what your three sorts of Disciples will prove, that do not profess to take Christ for their Master.
What you mention out of Ames of taking stones out of the quarry, to polish, &c. is nothing to the purpose. Baptizing them is not polishing them, that is, preparing them for conversion, according to the Institution; but its the placing polished stones in the building: To polish them for the building, is to make them true Disciples, and not Professors of another kind of faith. P•g 168. When I say that to be Christs Disciples is to be one that unfeignedly takes him for his Master, &c. You answer, that [This is true as to the inheritance of Heaven, but not as to the ininheritance of Ordinances: The Jew outwardly was not thus qualified.] Repl. 1. Our question is, what is a Disciple? and whats your answer to that, unless you distinguish of two sorts, and mean that another sort there are that inherite Ordinances? 2. And then I say further, some Ordinances are without the Church, and those may have them that are no Disciples; and f•r those proper to the Church, none have right to them but who at least profess the foresaid Discipleship I wonder what your three sorts of Disciples will prove, that do not profess to take Christ for their Master.