A26886:732
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.
Trelcatius Instit. Theol l. 2. p. 198.1 [Materia baptismum recipiens sunt omnes & soli qui probabiliter in foedere censentur. Censentur autem tam adulti, qui principiis fidei initiati, ad Ecclesiam accedentes, fidem suam & poenitentiam apud homines profitentur, tam infantes, &c. Many passages before and after show that he (as others) take to be foederatus or in foedere to be proper to the truly Regenerate, and therefore they truly say, qui probabiliter censentur esse in foedere.
Trelcatius Instit. Theol l. 2. p. 198.1 [Materia baptismum recipiens sunt omnes & soli qui probabiliter in foedere censentur. Censentur autem tam adulti, qui principiis fidei initiati, ad Ecclesiam accedentes, fidem suam & poenitentiam apud homines profitentur, tam infantes, &c. Many passages before and after shew that he (as others) take to be foederatus or in foedere to be proper to the truly Regenerate, and therefore they truly say, qui probabiliter censentur esse in foedere.
- 121. Trelcatius.
Jo. Ger. Vossius,1 Thes. de Sacram. Essicac. Th. 37. Disp. 2. p. 3.28.339 mentioning the Answers of the Reformed Divines to an Objection, divideth them into two parts, as not agreed in the point. The first is those, [qui dicere solent, eum qui fidem habet praedicationi Evangelicae, virtualiter quidem salutem habere, quia & dispositus est ad salutem consequendam, & instrumento instructus, quo gratiam s•lutarem attingere & consequi possit, &c.] And thus they confess that Faith goeth before Baptism, (even this Justifying faith which they call the Instrument) but they think that Justification and Sanctification follow Faith and Baptism. The other sort are they, who think [that the Spirit by the Word (before Baptism) doth not only beget Faith, but also offer to Faith, and confer the spiritual Grace of Regeneration: So that both sorts agree of the Precedency of Faith (in the Adult.)