Mr. Richard Baxter's last legacy in select admonitions and directions to all sober dissenters

Whereas some mis-interpret the words of the old Rubric of Confirmation in the English Liturgy,¹ as if it spake of all that are baptized, whether they have right or not, the words themselves may serve to rectify that mistake: [And that no Man shall think any detriment shall come to Children by deferring of their Confirmation, he shall know for truth, that it is certain by God's Word, that Children being baptized have all things necessary for their Salvation, and be undoubtedly saved.] where it is plain, they mean, they have all things necessary ex parte Ecclesiae, or all God's applying Ordinances necessary, though they should die unconfirmed, supposing they have all things necessary to just Baptism on their own part: which is but what the Ancients were wont to say of the baptized Adult: but they never meant, that the Infidel and Impenitent were in a state of Life, because he was baptized, but that all that truly consent to the Covenant▪ and signify this by being baptized are saved. So the Church of England saith, that they receive no detriment by delaying Confirmation; but it never said, that they received no detriment by their Parents or Responses Infidelity or Hypocrisy, or by their want of true Right, coram Deo, to be baptized.

Whereas some mis-interpret the words of the old Rubrick of Confirmation in the English Liturgy,¹ as if it spake of all that are baptized, whether they have right or not, the words themselves may serve to rectifie that mistake: [And that no Man shall think any detriment shall come to Children by deferring of their Confirmation, he shall know for truth, that it is certain by God's Word, that Children being baptized have all things necessary for their Salvation, and be undoubtedly saved.] where it is plain, they mean, they have all things necessary ex parte Ecclesiae, or all God's applying Ordinances necessary, though they should die unconfirmed, supposing they have all things necessary to just Baptism on their own part: which is but what the Ancients were wont to say of the baptized Adult: but they never meant, that the Infidel and Impenitent were in a state of Life, because he was baptized, but that all that truly consent to the Covenant▪ and signifie this by being baptized are saved. So the Church of England saith, that they receive no detriment by delaying Confirmation; but it never said, that they received no detriment by their Parents or Responses Infidelity or Hypocrisie, or by their want of true Right, coram Deo, to be baptized.