A26906:328
The cure of church-divisions, or, Directions for weak Christians to keep them from being…
The cure of church-divisions, or, Directions for weak Christians to keep them from being dividers or troublers of the church with some directions to the pastors how to deal with such Christians / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Nevil Symmons, 1670
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.
Ans. If that and their gross ignorance be proved together, as you may delay them for the later, so you may reject them for the former; because it showeth their impenitence: But this must be proved of them, and not affirmed without proof.
Ans. If that and their gross ignorance be proved together, as you may delay them for the later, so you may reject them for the former; because it sheweth their impenitence: But this must be proved of them, and not affirmed without proof.
Obj. But their Baptism made them members only of the Universal Church, and not of any particular Church: And therefore will not prove them such.
Obj. But their Baptisme made them members only of the Universal Church, and not of any particular Church: And therefore will not prove them such.
Answ. True: But he that is a member of the Universal Church, is fit to be received into a particular Church; And there wanteth no more but mutual consent: And if he have statedly joined with a particular Church in ordinary communion, Consent hath bin manifested, and he is a member of that particular Church, and must not be rejected by it, but in Christs way. And this is the common case in England. The persons who were baptized in Infancy, were at once received into the Universal Church, and into some particular Church, & have held communion at age with both; and have right to that communion till they are publicly proved to have lost their right.
Answ. True: But he that is a member of the Universal Church, is fit to be received into a particular Church; And there wanteth no more but mutual consent: And if he have statedly joyned with a particular Church in ordinary communion, Consent hath bin manifested, and he is a member of that particular Church, and must not be rejected by it, but in Christs way. And this is the common case in England. The persons who were baptized in Infancy, were at once received into the Universal Church, and into some particular Church, & have held communion at age with both; and have right to that communion till they are publikely proved to have lost their right.