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The defence of the nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of the matter…
The defence of the nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of the matter of their nonconformity against Mr. J. Cheney's answer called The conforming nonconformist, and The nonconforming conformist : to which is added the second part in answer to Mr. Cheney's Five undertakings / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Benjamin Alsop, 1680
A DEFENCE OF THE NON-CONFORMIST'S Plea for Peace, AGAINST Mr. J. CH… › Chapter 18
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A Man that at the Lord's Supper, is asked whether he consent to Christ's Covenant, may signify it as aforesaid: But he may not therefore join to the Sacrament such another Covenanting Symbol of Christianity, e. g. To make (or consent to, and approve and use) a Law that all Christians shall, solemnly after the Eucharist, have their Heads anointed with Oil, to signify that they are Members of Christ, and hereby Covenant with him and the Holy Ghost, as signifying his Grace received, and their Duty performed and promised; and this applied by a Minister Officiating, as by his Commission.
A Man that at the Lord's Supper, is asked whether he consent to Christ's Covenant, may signifie it as aforesaid: But he may not therefore joyn to the Sacrament such another Covenanting Symbol of Christianity, e. g. To make (or consent to, and approve and use) a Law that all Christians shall, solemnly after the Eucharist, have their Heads anointed with Oyl, to signifie that they are Members of Christ, and hereby Covenant with him and the Holy Ghost, as signifying his Grace received, and their Duty performed and promised; and this applied by a Minister Officiating, as by his Commission.
§ 4. I perceive by your mistaking Inferences, that you understood not my distinction of Private and Public, and thought I had meant Secret, or Open, or before Few or Many: Whereas I speak in the sense that these words are commonly used in Politics, e. g. When they distinguish Index publicus & privatus, Res publicae & privatae, Actions publicae & privatae, &c. Public is that which either belongeth to the Society, or a Public ⟨p. 44⟩Officer as such: As a mere Subject is Homo privatus, so his Actions and Affairs, merely as his, are private: The Aerarium of the Commonwealth though kept secretly is the public Treasure. The judgment of a public Judge, when few are present in his Chamber, is Judicium publicum; and the judgment of a mere Arbitrator before thousands, is Judicium privatum: A private Man's arbitrary Words or Actions in Westminster-Hall at the Bar, are Actions privatae.