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The dangerous schismatic clearly detected and fully confuted for the saving of a distracted…The dangerous schismatick clearly detected and fully confuted for the saving of a distracted…
The dangerous schismatic clearly detected and fully confuted for the saving of a distracted nation from that which would destroy Christian love and unity : occasioned by a resolver of three cases about church-communion / by Richard Baxter ...The dangerous schismatick clearly detected and fully confuted for the saving of a distracted nation from that which would destroy Christian love and unity : occasioned by a resolver of three cases about church-communion / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1683
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.
X. The papists (and their truckling Agents here) have here hampered themselves in a fatal contradiction: To make themselves masters of the World, they would persuade us, that Sacraments only regenerate and sanctify, and that God saveth none (by any known way and grant) but by his Covenant Sealed by the Sacraments; and that he authorizeth none to administer this Covenant but Prelates and their Priests, and none can validly have it from other hands: And so if you will but abate them the proof of many things that stand in the way, Heaven and Hell, Salvation and Damnation are at the will and mercy of such Prelates and Priests. But unhappily they cannot retrieve their old Opinion, but maintain that Laymen ⟨p. 23⟩and Women may baptize in necessity validly, and that Baptism puts one into a State of Salvation.
X. The papists (and their truckling Agents here) have here hampered themselves in a fatal contradiction: To make themselves masters of the World, they would perswade us, that Sacraments only regenerate and sanctifie, and that God saveth none (by any known way and grant) but by his Covenant Sealed by the Sacraments; and that he authorizeth none to administer this Covenant but Prelates and their Priests, and none can validly have it from other hands: And so if you will but abate them the proof of many things that stand in the way, Heaven and Hell, Salvation and Damnation are at the will and mercy of such Prelates and Priests. But unhappily they cannot retrieve their old Opinion, but maintain that Laymen ⟨p. 23⟩and Women may baptize in necessity validly, and that Baptismputs one into a State of Salvation.
XI. As he that swears and keeps his Allegiance to the King is a Subject and Member of the Kingdom, though he be no Member of any Corporation; so, though he disown a thousand fellow Subjects; yea, though he deny the Authority of Constable, Justice, Judge; so he that is devoted to Christ truly in the Baptismal Covenant, is a Christian, and a Member of the Universal Church, though he were of no particular Church, or did disown a thousand Members, or any particular Officer of the Church.