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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 Error continued, requireth the same Answer.
ARGUMENT XIII.
Mr. Blake. Those whom God engraft's by his power into the true Olive, and makes partakers of the fatness of the Olive, they have right in the sight of God to be admitted. This is plain: God engrafting, right must not be denied: but he engraft's by his power those that are short of that faith that justifies: even the whole body of the Church of the Gentiles, and we expect the like of the Church of the Jews, as appears from the Apostle, Rom. 11. Therefore those that are short of a justifying faith, have right in the sight of God to Baptism.
Mr. Blake. Those whom God ingraff's by his power into the true Olive, and makes partakers of the fatness of the Olive, they have right in the sight of God to be admitted. This is plain: God ingraffing, right must not be denied: but he ingraff's by his power those that are short of that faith that justifies: even the whole body of the Church of the Gentiles, and we expect the like of the Church of the Jews, as appears from the Apostle,