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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.
Also in his Absters. Calum. Heshusiit pag. 333. ad 7mam Cal. he is more full, showing that Faith and Adoption go before Baptism; yet that the Church doth judge ex probabilibus conjecturis an aliquis ad Christum pertineat, putà in infantibus, si quis ex infidelibus sit prognatus: in adultis, si quis Christianam fidem see amplecti profiteatur, & Ecclesiae per baptismum inseri roget.] And by the next words he shows that he means by [being in Covenant, and belonging to Christ, & believing] that which is proper to the elect; [Nam potest quidem esse ex Reproborum numero qui ex fidelibus est prognatus, & potest aliquis simulare se Christianū; sed occulta haec Deo, &c.] Et postea: [Meritò arbitramur infants Fideliū in peculio Domini censeri, & Spiritu sancto profundi, (that is, before baptism.)
Also in his Absters. Calum. Heshusiit pag. 333. ad 7mam Cal. he is more full, shewing that Faith and Adoption go before Baptism; yet that the Church doth judge ex probabilibus conjecturis an aliquis ad Christum pertineat, putà in infantibus, si quis ex infidelibus sit prognatus: in adultis, si quis Christianam fidem se amplecti profiteatur, & Ecclesiae per baptismum inseri roget.] And by the next words he shews that he means by [being in Covenant, and belonging to Christ, & believing] that which is proper to the elect; [Nam potest quidem esse ex Reproborum numero qui ex fidelibus est prognatus, & potest aliquis simulare se Christianū; sed occulta haec Deo, &c.] Et postea: [Meritò arbitramur infantes Fideliū in peculio Domini censeri, & Spiritu sancto profundi, (that is, before baptism.)
And yet more fully in his Question: & Respons. n. 106, &c. pag. 343. [Q. Quid significat In Nomen? R. Sic declaratur Baptismus esse solenne jusjurandum quo baptizandus sese totum addicit uni Deo & trino, &c. [Vid. reliq. Now it is certain, that he that professeth [se totum Deo addicere,] professeth no less than a saving faith, 6r else there is no profession of it.