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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.
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.]
Pag. 157. How comes I pray you that future in? In obligationibus ubi nullus certus statuitur dies, quovis die debetur. There is no day overtaken, but the Engagement is, for present. And he that professeth to consent to be a true believer at present, or the next minute, doth in sense profess himself a true believer at present. Pag. 147. ["His two first Arguments, drawn from Authority, the first of the Assembly of Divines, and others of a number of Fathers, ⟨p. 233⟩are brought to prove that the Profession of a justifying Faith is required to Baptism: And what is that to me who never denied it, but in plain words have often affirmed it? It is sufficiently implied where I require a Dogmatical faith to Baptism.
Pag. 157. How comes I pray you that future in? In obligationibus ubi nullus certus statuitur dies, quovis die debetur. There is no day overtaken, but the Engagement is, for present. And he that professeth to consent to be a true believer at present, or the next minute, doth in sense profess himself a true believer at present. Pag. 147. ["His two first Arguments, drawn from Authority, the first of the Assembly of Divines, and others of a number of Fathers, ⟨p. 233⟩