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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.
The same disease still. None short of saving faith ought to be admitted member, but on the Profession of it. What if I distinguish the visible Kingdom from the Elect? Once for all I let you know, that I take saving faith to be the constitutive or necessary qualification of a real or mystical member: and Profession of that faith to be the qualifying condition of Visibility of Member-ship: But your other kind of Faith to be neither.
ARGUMENT XII.
Mr. Blake. The Children of God have right in the sight of God to be admitted to Baptism; this is clear enough: but men short of Justifying faith are Children of God, even those that drew down judgements on the old world, as Gen 6.2. The whole body of the children of Israel. Deut. 14.1.