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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.
Mr. Blake of Sacraments, pag. 124. [So that I conceit no Promise of these Ordinances made to such a Faith, but an actual investiture of every such believer in them.] And if no Promise, then no Right to them by Pr•mise, or any Moral Grant. And if only actual investiture, they can make no just claim to that investiture before hand; for the actual investiture being not yet existent, can give no right to it self: nor doth that investiture justify the seeking, or demanding, or possessing of it: for all possession is not lawful.
Mr. Blake of Sacraments, pag. 124. [So that I conceit no Promise of these Ordinances made to such a Faith, but an actual investiture of every such believer in them.] And if no Promise, then no Right to them by Pr•mise, or any Moral Grant. And if only actual investiture, they can make no just claim to that investiture before hand; for the actual investiture being not yet existent, can give no right to it self: nor doth that investiture justifie the seeking, or demanding, or possessing of it: for all possession is not lawful.
Pag. 147. [Seeing Mr. Baxter calls upon me to declare my self further in this thing, I do believe and profess to hold, that he that upon hearing the Gospel preached, and the truth of it published and opened, shall professedly abjure all other opposite ways whatsoever, and choose the Christian way for salvation, promising to follow the Rules of it, is to be baptized, and his seed.]
Pag. 147. [Seeing Mr. Baxter calls upon me to declare my self further in this thing, I do believe and profess to hold, that he that upon hearing the Gospel preacht, and the truth of it published and opened, shall professedly abjure all other opposite wayes whatsoever, and choose the Christian way for salvation, promising to follow the Rules of it, is to be baptized, and his seed.]