A26886:578
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.
ANSWER.
1. The Major is true. 1. distinguishing of Right, as before; 2. and of Servants; and taking the word Servants in a peculiar sense, as Lev. 25.41. doth. The Minor also and the Conclusion is thus granted. But Mr. Blake's Conclusions have a common unhappiness to be strangers to the question: Doth it follow because I must baptize those that profess sincere Covenanting or Faith, though they have but a faith of another sort, that therefore I must baptize them on the account of that other faith? By such an Argument. I may as well prove that Infidelity or Heathenism gives right to Baptism, thus: Many Infidels or Heathens have right to baptism (that is, those that in heart are ⟨p. 181⟩such, have such a Right as yours pleaded for, upon the account of an external Profession of Christianity.) Therefore infidelity or Heathenism gives them right. If this Consequence must be denied, so must yours.
1. The Major is true. 1. distinguishing of Right, as before; 2. and of Servants; and taking the word Servants in a peculiar sense, as Lev. 25.41. doth. The Minor also and the Conclusion is thus granted. But Mr. Blake's Conclusions have a common unhappiness to be strangers to the question: Doth it follow because I must baptize those that profess sincere Covenanting or Fai•h, though they have but a faith of another sort, that therefore I must baptize them on the account of that other faith? By such an Argument. I may as well prove that Infidelity or Heathenism gives right to Baptism, thus: Many Infidels or Heathens have right to baptism (that is, those that in heart are