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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.
I conclude, That all examples of baptism in Scripture do mention only the administration of it to the Professors of saving faith: and the precepts give us no other direction. And I provoke Mr. Blake (as far as is seemly for me to do) to name one precept or example for baptizing any other, and make it good, if he can.
Argum. 17. is from 1. Pet. 3.21. [I be like figure whereto even Baptism doth also now save us: not the putting away the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God. [Whence I thus argue; If Baptism be appointed for out solemn admission into a state of salvation, as Noah's Ark received men into a state ⟨p. 157⟩of safety from the deluge, then none should be baptized but those that profess that saith which entereth them into a state of salvation. But the former is true: therefore so is the later.
Argum. 17. is from 1. Pet. 3.21. [I be like figure whereto even Baptism doth also now save us: not the putting away the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God. [Whence I thus argue; If Baptism be appointed for out solemn admission into a state of salvation, as Noahs Ark received men into a state ⟨p. 157⟩of safety from the deluge, then none should be baptized but those that profess that saith which entereth them into a state of salvation. But the former is true: therefore so is the later.