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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.
Ans. It is his Sin not to know that he consenteth not; and that will not make it lawful for him to Lye, and Vow falsely. But the harder it is for him to know his own Mind, the more excusable he is: And a false entrance is not a Sin that is unpardonable, nor is the Sinner uncurable, but may be converted in the Church, though he came in unlawfully.
Ans. It is his Sin not to know that he consenteth not; and that will not make it lawful for him to Lye, and Vow falsly. But the harder it is for him to know his own Mind, the more excusable he is: And a false entrance is not a Sin that is unpardonable, nor is the Sinner uncurable, but may be converted in the Church, though he came in unlawfully.
§ 6. While preposterously you tell us who you think hath right to Baptism, and the Lord's Supper, you pass over the Fundamental Controversy, as if you knew it not; which is, What Baptism and the Lord's Supper are. This is it that we are mostly disagreed about: End this, and end all. I suppose you take Baptism to be the first Sacrament, and that less is not necessary to the Lord's Supper than to it. And I presume to tell you, that Christ never ordained, nor the Church ever used any other Baptism of the Adult, than 1. That which delivered the present Remission of Sin, and right to Life, to the just receiver of Baptism; 2. and that which contained on the part of the Receiver, his present profession of saving Faith and Repentance, that is, his true consent to the Covenant.
§ 6. While preposterously you tell us who you think hath right to Baptism, and the Lord's Supper, you pass over the Fundamental Controversie, as if you knew it not; which is, What Baptism and the Lord's Supper are. This is it that we are mostly disagreed about: End this, and end all. I suppose you take Baptism to be the first Sacrament, and that less is not necessary to the Lord's Supper than to it. And I presume to tell you, that Christ never ordained, nor the Church ever used any other Baptism of the Adult, than 1. That which delivered the present Remission of Sin, and right to Life, to the just receiver of Baptism; 2. and that which contained on the part of the Receiver, his present profession of saving Faith and Repentance, that is, his true consent to the Covenant.