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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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I think it is clear, that those whom Paul describeth, 2 Tim. 3. are to be avoided by all Christians, as not in the Christian body: and he describeth them by their unholiness, and particular vices; and saith of their Teachers, that they are [Men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith]; yet have their Disciples a form of Godliness. And doubtless [Reprobates concerning the faith] if so known, are not to be numbered with Christians. Those from whom we are to be separated here and hereafter, are styled oft [The Ungodly] Psal. 1. And as in some places the distinction ⟨p. 291⟩is between Believers and Unbelievers, so in others, between the righteous and wicked or ungodly, 1 Pet. 4.17, 18. where all these are descriptions of the same men, [ungodly and sinners], such as are not of the house of God [men that know not God] And it was the world of the Ungodly that God brought the Flood upon; and to be an example to those that after should live ungodly, was Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed, 1 Pet. 2.5, 6. And John tell us, that in this the children of God are known from the children of the Devil; he that doth wickedness is not of God.
I think it is clear, that those whom Paul describeth, 2 Tim. 3. are to be avoided by all Christians, as not in the Christian body: and he describeth them by their unholiness, and particular vices; and saith of their Teachers, that they are [Men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith]; yet have their Disciples a form of Godliness. And doubtless [Reprobates concerning the faith] if so known, are not to be numbred with Christians. Those from whom we are to be separated here and hereafter, are stiled oft [The Vngodly] Psal. 1. And as in some places the distinction ⟨p. 291⟩is between Believers and Vnbelievers, so in others, between the righteous and wicked or ungodly,