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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
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All this laid together, shows us that Christianity, or the Christian Faith, truly and properly so called, which denominateth a man properly a Christian, is specifically distinct (as to a moral specification) from the faith of the highest unregenerate man: (When Mr. K. wrote a digression against me on a ⟨p. 275⟩mistake that, I had denied this, I did not think that others would so call me out to the defence of it.) And seeing that they differ by a moral specification, it is clear that they admit not of the same Definition; and that the term [Faith] or [Christianity] applied to both these, cannot mean the same thing: but must here be an equivocal. Thus I have cleared it, that to profess the belief of one part of the Christian faith only, is not to profess the Christian faith, or to profess to be a Christian: and therefore such are not to be baptized, seeing we must baptize them into the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, if we will baptize them with Christian Baptism.
All this laid together, shews us that Christianity, or the Christian Faith, truly and properly so called, which denominateth a man properly a Christian, is specifically distinct (as to a moral specification) from the faith of the highest unregenerate man: (When Mr. K. wrote a digression against me on a ⟨p. 275⟩mistake that, I had denyed this, I did not think that others would so call me out to the defence of it.) And seeing that they differ by a moral specification, it is clear that they admit not of the same Definition; and that the term [Faith] or [Christianity] applyed to both these, cannot mean the same thing: but must here be an equivocal. Thus I have cleared it, that to profess the belief of one part of the Christian faith only, is not to profess the Christian faith, or to profess to be a Christian: and therefore such are not to be baptized, seeing we must baptize them into the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, if we will baptize them with Christian Baptism.