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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
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ANSWER.
1. I mean in that Argument, that as to the natural extrinsic action, commanded or performed, God doth no more: But yet God hath before the sealing in the foregoing promise done so much more, as that he is actually thereby (as it were) obliged to the performers of the condition, when he is not so to others. For while it is but conditional, it is not actual: for the act is suspended on the condition.
1. I mean in that Argument, that as to the natural extrinsick action, commanded or performed, God doth no more: But yet God hath before the sealing in the foregoing promise done so much more, as that he is actually thereby (as it were) obliged to the performers of the condition, when he is not so to others. For while it is but conditional, it is not actual: for the act is suspended on the condition.
2. Is not Mr. Blake able to distinguish, between an Hypocrite and a Professor of another sort of faith? I confess we may give the Seals to Hypocrites; for they profess that saving faith which they have not: but it doth not follow that therefore we may give them to men that never so much as professed it, but only professed another kind of faith. And why will an ingenuous sober Brother insinuate that these are they whom I call Hypocrites, who never do so much as profess to be sincere Christians? And now I am as content as Mr. Blake that the Intelligent Reader do pass his censure upon my supposed Contradictions, & Mr. Blake's Arguments.