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The English nonconformity as under King Charles II and King James II truly stated…
The English nonconformity as under King Charles II and King James II truly stated and argued by Richard Baxter ; who earnestly beseecheth rulers and clergy not to divide and destroy the land and cast their own souls on the dreadful guilt and punishment of national perjury ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1689
Chapter 9: Point VI. Of the Article of Baptized Infants Salvation.
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L. IV. What is the fourth part of your reason against this point?
M. 1. We dare not father that on God which he never spake. 2. And we dread the curse, Rev. 22. against them that shall add to his word, viz. that he will add his curses upon them. How terribly are false Prophets threatened that say, Thus saith the Lord, when the Lord never said it: This is to belie God and to take his name in vain. And for Nine ⟨p. 57⟩thousand or Ten thousand Ministers to affirm that this is certain by God's word that they are undoubtedly saved, and when they have done cannot to this day, show us one word of God that saith it, is such an adding to his word as we had rather still be called all that's naught, and imprisoned than be guilty of. We take it for a Fanatic presumption in Papists to pretend to be infallible in Councils, in determining those things which out of the Council through ignorance they understood not: and how it should be but by Enthusiasm, or fanatic pretence of Inspiration, that a multitude of raw ignorant fellows, or lads should come to find that in God's word as undoubtedly certain, which none of us in forty or fifty years search could ever find there, I cannot tell.
M. 1. We dare not father that on God which he never spake. 2. And we dread the curse, Rev. 22. against them that shall add to his word, viz. that he will add his curses upon them. How terribly are false Prophets threatned that say, Thus saith the Lord, when the Lord never said it: This is to belie God and to take his name in vain. And for Nine ⟨p. 57⟩thousand or Ten thousand Ministers to affirm that this is certain by God's word that they are undoubtedly saved, and when they have done cannot to this day, shew us one word of God that saith it, is such an adding to his word as we had rather still be called all that's naught, and imprisoned than be guilty of. We take it for a Fanatick presumption in Papists to pretend to be infallible in Councils, in determining those things which out of the Council through ignorance they understood not: and how it should be but by Enthusiasm, or fanatick pretence of Inspiration, that a multitude of raw ignorant fellows, or lads should come to find that in God's word as undoubtedly certain, which none of us in forty or fifty years search could ever find there, I cannot tell.