A26886:671
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.
3. It was the constant Doctrine of these Father• •nd the Church, then, that Faith and Repentance (given in […]) did go first; and that Justification, Adoption, and San••i•i•a•ion followed after. (And so hold all the reformed Divine• that I know of, till Mr. Pemble lately contradicted it.) And so they took this Justifying Faith and true Repentance to be prerequisite to Baptism; and therefore note, 1. That all the forementioned terms describe only Justification and Sanctification. 2. That they never speak a word of Justifying Faith or Repentance infused by Baptism; for these are supposed. 3. That therefore they ever enquired before hand whether they believed in God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and renounced the Flesh, the World, and the Devil (as is aforesaid;) and caused them to profess this before they would baptized them.
3. It was the constant Doctrine of these Father• •nd the Church, then, that Faith and Repentance (given in 〈…〉) did go first; and that Justification, Adoption, and San••i•i•a•ion followed after. (And so hold all the reformed Divine• that I know of, till Mr. Pemble lately contradicted it.) And so they took this Justifying Faith and true Repentance to be prerequisite to Baptism; and therefore note, 1. That all the forementioned terms describe only Justification and Sanctification. 2. That they never speak a word of Justifying Faith or Repentance infused by Baptism; for these are supposed. 3. That therefore they ever enquired before hand whether they believed in God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and renounced the Flesh, the World, and the Devil (as is aforesaid;) and caused them to profess this before they would baptized them.