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An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches
An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches by reconciling explication without much disputing. Written by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1691
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.
§. 18. But this is not only because they are born of their Bodies, nor yet is their Faith the efficient Cause of it; but there are two things go to qualify the Receiver as the dispositive Condition, that is, 1. That he be the Child of a faithful Parent, who devoteth himself sincerely to God. 2. And that he be by the Parent devoted to God, by Consent, that he be in the mutual Covenant: Which virtually all the Faithful do that have Infants, because they devote themselves and theirs to God to the utmost of their Capacity. And the Recipient Subject being thus qualified, God▪, Covenant pardoneth him, as the efficient Instrument, by signifying God's Will.
§. 18. But this is not only because they are born of their Bodies, nor yet is their Faith the efficient Cause of it; but there are two things go to qualifie the Receiver as the dispositive Condition, that is, 1. That he be the Child of a faithful Parent, who devote•h himself sincerely to God. 2. And that he be by the Parent devoted to God, by Consent, that he be in the mutual Covenant: Which virtually all the Faithful do that have Infants, because they devote themselves and theirs to God to the utmost of their Capacity. And the Recipient Subject being thus qualified, God▪, Covenant pardoneth him, as the efficient Instrument, by signifying God's Will.
§. 19. Though the Promise here be not so plain, I deny not, that all true Proprietors, whose own the Child is, here be as Parents.
§. 19. Though the Promise here be not so plain, I deny not, that all true Propriet•rs, whose own the Child is, here be as Parents.