A26886:583
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.
This Argument is sick of the common disease of the rest; the Conclusion is a stranger to the question. Quâ tales, they bring not forth Children to God in any Church sense.
ARGUMENT VII.
Mr. Blake. Children of the Kingdom of God, or those that are Subjects of his Kingdom, have right in the sight of God to be received into his Kingdom. This Proposition Mr. Baxter hath proved, pag. 21. therefore I may save my pains. But those that are short of faith that Justifies, are Children or Subjects of this Kingdom, Mat. 8.12. The Children of the Kingdom shall be cast into outer darkness. Those therefore that are short of Justifying faith, have right in the sight of God to be thus received.