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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.
Not for Actual Remission; for then Notoriously Ungodly persons are Actually remitted; which is not true: Nor for ⟨p. 260⟩Conditional; for then no more is given then all the World hath (at least that hear the Gospel) even persecuting Infidels; and then all they may as well be baptized; for God pardoneth all upon condition they repent and believe.
Not for Actual Remission; for then Notoriously Ungodly persons are Actually remitted; which is not true: Nor for ⟨p. 260⟩Condit•onal; for then no more is given then all the World hath (at least that hear the Gospel) even persecuting Infidels; and then all they may as well be baptized; for God pardoneth all upon condition they repent and believe.
Argu. 3. If God be not at all actually obliged in Covenant to any notorious ungodly man, then is he not obliged to give him Baptism. But God is not obliged so to him. Ergo.
The Minor is unquestionable; The Major is granted by most of our Divines, who make the contrary Doctrine Pelagianism, that God should be obliged to man in the state of Nature, in such a Covenant: If God be obliged to give them Baptism, then if he should not give it them, he breaks Promise with them; But the Consequence is unsound; Ergo, &c. Nor doth he give them power to claim it from the Church-Officers; for they can show no Title.
The Minor is unquestionable; The Major is granted by most of our Divines, who make the contrary Doctrine Pelagianism, that God should be obliged to man in the state of Nature, in such a Covenant: If God be obliged to give them Baptism, then if he should not give it them, he breaks Promise with them; But the Consequence is unsound; Ergo, &c. Nor doth he give them power to claim it from the Church-Officers; for they can shew no Title.