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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
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.
§ 4. Remember that the full Conversion to Sa••ing-Sincerity, is nothing else but [sincere Consent to the Baptismal Covenant.] And every such Consenter, and only such (Adult) are savingly converted. And that it is not that Covenant, when any essential part is omitted: To believe in the Father and not the Son, or not in the Holy Ghost, is not that Covenant: Now the Person in ⟨p. 149⟩question, To receive the Sacrament as the Sacrament, (Baptism, or the Eucharist) and not to profess Consent to the Covenant, is a contradiction; no Man can do it: Covenanting is essential to it. And it is essential to it to be by God's Commission a Solemn actual investing Delivery, with application to the just receiver of a saving Right to God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and actual present pardon of Sin, and right to Life.
§ 5. And the Person in question is either,
1. One that Consenteth not, and knoweth that he consenteth not.
2. Or that Consenteth not and thinks he doth, because he consenteth to some part.