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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 third Disputation. Quest. Whether the Infants of Notoriously-ungodly baptized Parents have Right to be Baptized.
Tertullian. Apologet. cap. 16. Sed dices; Etiam de nostris excedere quosdam à Regulâ Disciplinae: Desunt tum Christiani haberi penès nos. Philosophi verò illi cum talibus factis in nomine & honore sapientiae perseverant. Thes. Salmuriens. Vol. 3. Pag. 59. Thes. 39. Sacramenta non conferuntur nisi iis qui vel fidem habent, vel saltem eam prae see ferunt, adeò ut nullis certis argumentis compertum esse possit eam esse ementitam. Gilespie, Aaron's Rod Blossoming. pag. 514. I believe, No conscientious Minister would adventure to baptize one who hath manifest and infallible signs of Unregeneration. Sure, we cannot be answerable to God, if we should minister Baptism to a man whose works and words do manifestly declare him to be an unregenerated unconverted person. And if we may not Initiate such a one, how shall we bring him to the Lords Table? Rutherford, Due Right of Presbyteries, pag. 231. n. 2. But, saith Robinson, most of England are ignorant of the first Rudiments and Foundation of Religion; and therefore cannot be a Church. Answ. Such are materially not the visible Church, and have not a Profession; and are to be taught; and if they wilfully remain in that darkness, are to be cast out.
Tertullian. Apologet. cap. 16. Sed dices; Etiam de nostris excedere quosdam à Regulâ Disciplinae: Desunt tum Christiani haberi penès nos. Philosophi verò illi cum talibus factis in nomine & honore sapientiae perseverant. Thes. Salmuriens. Vol. 3. Pag. 59. Thes. 39. Sacramenta non conferuntur nisi iis qui vel fidem habent, vel saltem eam prae se ferunt, adeò ut nullis certis argumentis compertum esse possit eam esse ementitam. Gilespie, Aaron's Rod Blossoming. pag. 514. I believe, No conscientious Minister would adventure to baptize one who hath manifest and infallible signs of Unregeneration. Sure, we cannot be answerable to God, if we should minister Baptism to a man whose works and words do manifestly declare him to be an unregenerated unconverted person. And if we may not Initiate such a one, how shall we bring him to the Lords Table? Rutherford, Due Right of Presbyteries, pag. 231. n. 2. But, saith Robinson, most of England are ignorant of the first Rudiments and Foundation of Religion; and therefore cannot be a Church. Answ. Such are materially not the visible Church, and have not a Profession; and are to be taught; and if they wilfully remain in that darkness, are to be cast out.