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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.
The Church of Scotland in their Heads of Church Policy,1 recited by Spotswood in his History l. 6. pag. 289. thus begin▪ [1. The Church of God is sometime largely taken for all them that profess the Evangel of Jesus Christ, and also it is a company not only of the Godly but also Hypocrites professing outwardly one true Religion. ⟨p. 229⟩2. At other times it is taken for the Elect only and the Godly.] So that here are none acknowledged Church-members, but those only that are truly Godly and Elect, or seem to be so, and are Hypocrites if they be not so.
- 152. The Scottish Church.
The Helvetian Confession, 1(as in the Harmony translated, p. 287.) of Bapt. faith,] To be baptized in the name of Christ, is to be enrolled, entered and received into the Covenant and Family, and so into the Inheritance of the sons of God, and called the sons of God, and purged also from the filthiness of sins, and to be endued with the manifold Grace of God, for to lead a new and innocent life. — We therefore by being baptized, do confess our faith, and are bound to give unto God obedience, mortification of the flesh, and newness of life; yea, and we are listed soldiers for the warfare of Christ; that all our life long we should fight against the World, Satan, and our own flesh.] (And none but sound believers truly consent to this: and therefore none but Professors of sound belief do profess consent to it.)
The Helvetian Confession, 1(as in the Harmony translated, p. 287.) of Bapt. faith,] To be baptized in the name of Christ, is to be enrolled, entered and received into the Covenant and Family, and so into the Inheritance of the sons of God, and called the sons of God, and purged also from the filthiness of sins, and to be indued with the manifold Grace of God, for to lead a new and innocent life. — We therefore by being baptized, do confess our faith, and are bound to give unto God obedience, mortification of the flesh, and newness of life; yea, and we are listed souldiers for the warfare of Christ; that all our life long we should fight against the World, Satan, and our own flesh.] (And none but sound believers truly consent to this: and therefore none but Professors of sound belief do profess consent to it.)