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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.
So that he takes it to be a profession of a saving faith that is necessary in the adult, which must give us ground in the Judgement of Charity to judge them true believers and elect; and that we suppose the like of their Infants in the same judgement: and therefore suppose them justified before we baptize them.
Perkins, 1Order of Causes of Salv, pag. 71. c. 32. [A Sacrament is that whereby Christ and his saving Graces are by certain external rites signified exhibited, and sealed to a Christian man.] pag. 72. The holy use of a Sacrament is, when such as are truly converted do use those rites which God hath prescribed to the true ends of the Sacrament. Therefore 1. the Reprobate, though God offer the whole Sacrament to them, yet they receive the signs alone without the things signified by the sign; because the sign without the right use thereof is not a Sacrament to the receiver of it, Rom. 2.25.2. The Sacrament received before a mans conversion, is afterward to the Penitent both ratified & becometh profitable: and that use of the Sacrament, which before was utterly unlawful, doth then become very lawful Leg p 74. [The action of the party to be baptized is twofold: the first is. To offer himself to be baptized before the Minister, &c. This signifieth that he doth consecrate himself to the Lord, and that he utterly renounceth the Flesh, the World, and the Devil, 1 Pet. 3.21.]
Perkins, 1Order of Causes of Salv, pag. 71. c. 32. [A Sacrament is that whereby Christ and his saving Graces are by certain external rites signified exhibited, and sealed to a Christian man.] pag. 72. The holy use of a Sacrament is, when such as are truly converted do use those rites which God hath prescribed to the true ends of the Sacrament. Therefore 1. the Reprobate, though God offer the whole Sacrament to them, yet they receive the signs alone without the things signified by the sign; because the sign without the right use thereof is not a Sacrament to the receiver of it,