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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. 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⟩are brought to prove that the Profession of a justifying Faith is required to Baptism: And what is that to me who never denyed it, but in plain words have often affirmed it? It is sufficiently implyed where I require a Dogmatical faith to Baptism.
Pag. 122. [That therefore which he calls the great Question between him and me, is no Question at all. It were madness to affirm that which with these limits be thus denies.] And I have no mind to accuse Mr. Blake of madness. Seeing therefore he must either be of my mind, or be mad, I will make no doubt to think that he is of my mind in that: and that his insinuating and oft affirming that I deny the thing there in question, simply or without those limits, proceedeth from that great injustice which temerity oft causeth in passionate men.