A26886:593
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.
ARGUMENT IX.
Mr. Blake. Disciples of Christ have right in the sight of God to Baptism, as appears in Christs commission, Mat. 28.19. But many are Disciples of Christ, that are short of a Faith that justifies: therefore those that are short of a Faith that justifies, have right in the sight of God to Baptism. If all that I have said, pa. 208. of the Treatise of the Covenant to prove this assumption, be too weak, as I think it is not, Mr. Baxters proof pag. 21. of his Treatise hath sure strength sufficient; there he proves that Infants are Disciples, because they are subjects of Christs Kingdom; and what Kingdom he means, he there explains himself. [I speak not here (saith he) of his Kingdom in the largest sense, as it containeth all the world; nor yet in the strictest, as it containeth only his Elect: but in the middle sense, as it containeth the Church visible, as it is most commonly used.] And therefore by the way not equivocally used. Those then of this middle posture, non-elect, are Disciples.
Mr. Blake. Disciples of Christ have right in the sight of God to Baptism, as appears in Christs commissiion, Mat. 28.19. But many are Disciples of Christ, that are short of a Faith that justifies: therefore those that are short of a Faith that justifies, have right in the sight of God to Baptism. If all that I have said, pa. 208. of the Treatise of the Covenant to prove this assumption, be too weak, as I think it is not, Mr. Baxters proof pag. 21. of his Treatise hath sure strength sufficient; there he proves that Infants are Disciples, because they are subjects of Christs Kingdom; and what Kingdom he means, he there explains himself. [I speak not here (saith he) of his Kingdom in the largest sense, as it containeth all the world; nor yet in the strictest, as it containeth only his Elect: but in the middle sense, as it containeth the Church visible, as it is most commonly used.] And therefore by the way not equivocally used. Those then of this middle posture, non-elect, are Disciples.