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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.
But it may possibly be Objected, that this was the Fathers error, who ascribed too much to Baptism. Answ. What ever they did in that, it proveth the point in hand, and showeth us what persons the baptized and the visible Church were taken for by the Fathers.
But it may possibly be Objected, that this was the Fathers error, who ascribed too much to Baptism. Answ. What ever they did in that, it proveth the point in hand, and sheweth us what persons the baptized and the visible Church were taken for by the Fathers.
Object. But doth it not rather show that saving Faith was not presupposed, because they supposed that Baptism did give the ⟨p. 200⟩spirit, and sanctification, and therefore found not men sanctified before.
Object. But doth it not rather shew that saving Faith was not presupposed, because they supposed that Baptism did give the ⟨p. 200⟩spirit, and sanctification, and therefore found not men sanctified before.
Answ. 1. It is undeniable that they took all that were duly baptized, to be presently in a state of salvation, without any delay: and therefore they did not take Baptism as a common Ordinance to lead men up to the use of other Church Ordinances, as the Supper, &c. (which is also common to the notoriously ungodly,) and so to saving grace.