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More proofs of infants church-membership and consequently their right to baptism, or, A second…
More proofs of infants church-membership and consequently their right to baptism, or, A second defence of our infant rights and mercies in three parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for N. Simmons and J. Robinson, 1675
Chapter 2: More of my Judgement of the Anabaptists and their Cause, with a motion to them for peace.
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.
§. 27. If the case were, whether the Lords Supper might be Administered with Beer, or Milk, where there is no Wine? Or whether Baptism might be Administered by Milk or Wine, where there is no water? suppose the affirming party were certainly in the right; yet if the contrary minded should say, I own Christs Sacrament, and solemnly profess my consent to his Covenant; and I would participate as you do, but that I take it to be a sin, and with all the means that I can use, in conference, reading, meditation, prayer, my judgement is not changed,] I should not break such communion with such a man, as he were capable and willing to hold with the Church. And how near some Anabaptists case is to this, I leave to consideration.
§. 27. If the case were, whether the Lords Supper might be Administred with Beer, or Milk, where there is no Wine? Or whether Baptism might be Administred by Milk or Wine, where there is no water? suppose the affirming party were certainly in the right; yet if the contrary minded should say, I own Christs Sacrament, and solemnly profess my consent to his Covenant; and I would participate as you do, but that I take it to be a sin, and with all the means that I can use, in conference, reading, meditation, prayer, my judgement is not changed,] I should not break such communion with such a man, as he were capable and willing to hold with the Church. And how near some Anabaptists case is to this, I leave to consideration.
§. 28. But making no question but many of them are far better men than I, and knowing my self liable to error, and knowing how much Christ in his promises layeth upon sincerity of Faith and Love more than upon ceremony; and having endeavoured to learn what this meaneth, I will have mercy and not sacrifice; As I am far more offended at their Schism, or separation from Communion with our Churches, than at their opinion, so I will here lay down those terms on which I am persuaded good and sober men will be willing on both sides to agree and hold communion: Or on which I am sure ⟨p. 229⟩