A26886:521
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.
Calvin on the Text saith, [Hoc in baptismo liquidò apparet, ubi Christo consepelimur, ut mundo & carni mortui, Deo vivamus; —ergo sicut Noe vitam adeptus est per mortem quum in Arcâ non secus atque in sepulcro inclusus fuit, & toto mundo pereunte, servatus fuit cum exigua familia: sic hodic Mortificatio quae in Baptismo figuratur nobis ingressus est in vitam; nec salus speranda est, nisi à mundo simus segregati. — Poterat quispiam objicere, baptismo Noe nostrum esse longè dissimilem, quia plerosque hodie baptizari contingat. Respondet autem, Non sussicere externum symbolum, nisi verè & efficaciter baptismum suscipiant.] (mark verè) Atqui ejus veritas in paucis reperietur. — And least you should think that Calvin takes it for a means towards a state of salvation, and not the solemn entrance into it, mark what follows, [Nec hic docere voluit Petrus inane & inefficax esse Christi institutum, (that is, ⟨p. 159⟩as to salvation) sed tantum excludere hypocritas à spe salutis, qui Baptismum quantum in se est dep•avant ac corrumpunt.] Mark here, that no Baptized men are excluded from salvation but Hypocrites. 2. That they that are excluded from salvation for all their Baptism, are such as did deprave and corrupt it, and not justly use it. I conclude my sentence in his following words; [Quid ergò agendum est? Nè separemus quae à Domino conjuncta sunt. Debemus in baptismo agnoscere spiritual lavacrum: debemus illìc testimonium remissi•nis peccatorum & renovationis nostrae pignus amplecti: sic tamen relinquere & Christo & Spiritui sancto suum honorem, &c. — His verbis docet Baptismum praecipuâ sui parte spiritualem esse: deinde peccatorum remissionem & reformationem veteris hominis in se complecti.]
Calvin on the Text saith, [Hoc in baptismo liquidò apparet, ubi Christo consepelimur, ut mundo & carni mortui, Deo vivamus; —ergo sicut Noe vitam adeptus est per mortem quum in Arcâ non secus atque in sepulcro inclusus fuit, & toto mundo pereunte, servatus fuit cum exigua familia: sic hodic Mortificatio quae in Baptismo figuratur nobis ingressus est in vitam; nec salus speranda est, nisi à mundo simus segregati. — Poterat quispiam objicere, baptismo Noe nostrum esse longè dissimilem, quia plerosque hodie baptizari contingat. Respondet autem, Non sussicere externum symbolum, nisi verè & efficaciter baptismum suscipiant.] (mark verè) Atqui ejus veritas in paucis reperietur. — And least you should think that Calvin takes it for a means towards a state of salvation, and not the solemn entrance into it, mark what follows, [Nec hic docere voluit Petrus inane & inefficax esse Christi institutum, (that is,