A26911:599
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.
§ 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.
§ 7. The Scripture telleth us, that Baptism saveth, as containing the answer of a good Conscience to God: And that as many as are Baptized into Christ, have put on Christ, and have professed that they are buried with him by Baptism into his Death, and raised with him to newness of Life, &c.
§ 8. God in great Mercy hath delivered down to us from the Apostles, the form of Baptism by a fuller Tradition than the words of the Scripture, or any things else of our Religion are delivered. All Ages and Churches to this Day, have retained the same form as to all the Essential parts: The very words of the Baptizer and the Baptized, the Credo, Abrenuncio, &c professed full show that all used this one Baptism, which was a professed Vow and Covenanting with God, and renouncing