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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.
ARGUMENT XV.
Mr. Blake. If the Apostle argue for a right to Baptism from gifts that are common to the justified and unjustified, then faith which is short of justifying, gives right in the sight of God to Baptism. This none can deny, unless they will call the Apostles Logic into question, and deny his Consequence. But the Apostle thus argues for a right to Baptism, from those gifts that are common to the justified and unjustified: This is plain Act. 10.47. Can any man forbid water that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we? The Holy Ghost there, is the gift of the Holy Ghost then poured out; the gift of tongues, as in the 45, & 46. verses is held forth, which is a gift not only inferior to Charity, but such as may be served from it, 1 Cor. 13.1. A gift of that kind, that men of a miraculous faith ordinarily did as in an instant confer. They are therefore gifts common to the justified and unjustified. Those therefore of faith short of that which is justifying have right to Baptism,
Mr. Blake. If the Apostle argue for a right to Baptism from gifts that are common to the justified and unjustified, then faith which is short of justifying, gives right in the sight of God to Baptism. This none can deny, unless they will call the Apostles Logick into question, and deny his Consequence. But the Apostle thus argues for a right to Baptism, from those gifts that are common to the justified and unjustified: This is plain Act. 10.47. Can any man forbid water that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we? The Holy Ghost there, is the gift of the Holy Ghost then poured out; the gift of tongues, as in the 45, & 46. verses is held forth, which is a gift not only inferiour to Charity, but such as may be served from it,