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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.
ANSWER.
Still the same disease. You should have concluded that your lower faith gives Right.] None are Christians on the account of your lower kind of faith, but only of saving faith or the profession of it.
ARGUMENT XI.
Mr. Blake. All that ought to be admitted visible Church-members, ought to be admitted in the sight of God to baptism. This none can question unless they charge it as Tautological, and it is Mr. Baxter's pa. 2.3. and the medium of that Argument which he makes the chief of all he useth. But those that are short of Justifying faith are members of the Church visible. Therefore those that are short of justifying faith, are to be admitted to baptism. The assumption is his likewise, where he distinguisheth the visible Kingdom from the Elect, and no man can deny it that grants the distinction of a Church into visible and invisible.
Mr. Blake. All that ought to be admitted visible Church-m•mbers, ought to be admitted in the sight of God to baptism. This none can question unless they charge it as Tautological, and it is Mr. Baxter's pa. 2.3. and the medium of that Argument which he makes the chief of all he useth. But those that are short of Justifying faith are members of the Church visible. Therefore those that are short of justifying faith, are to be admitted to baptism. The assumption is his likewise, where he distinguisheth the visible Kingdom from the Elect, and no man can deny it that grants the distinction of a Church into visible and invisible.