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The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things…
The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things in which they are misunderstood written to reconcile and pacify such as by mistaking them hinder love and concord / by Richard Baxter.The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things in which they are misunderstood written to reconcile and pacifie such as by mistaking them hinder love and concord / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Benj. Alsop, 1679
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.
2. The name [Sacrament] signifying primarily any solemnization of a Covenant by Oath and Ceremony (as the sacramentum militare among the Romans) especially a Covenant which engageth one in a new relation, and more largely any sacred mystical Ceremony, the question here is whether the Cross be not made (not only a sacrament in a larger sense, as ordination and Matrimony may be called sacraments) but even a sacrament of the Covenant of grace, or so very near it as to have the greatest part of that sacramental nature.
2. The name [Sacrament] signifying primarily any solemnization of a Covenant by Oath and Ceremony (as the sacramentum militare among the Romans) especially a Covenant which engageth one in a new relation, and more largely any sacred mystical Ceremony, the question here is whether the Cross be not made (not only a sacrament in a larger sense, as ordination and Matrimony may be called sacraments) but even a sacrament of the Covenant of grace, or so very neer it as to have the greatest part of that sacramental nature.
3. The Church Catechism defineth a Divine sacrament thus, (An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace given to us, ordained by Christ himself as a means whereby we receive the same, and a pledge to assure us thereof.
4. That it be ordained by Christ himself is not essential to a sacrament in genere, but to a sacrament of Gods making in specie as distinct from one that's made by man; as is evident in the reason of the name.
4. That it be ordained by Christ himself is not essential to a sacrament in genere, but to a sacrament of Gods making in specie as distinct from one thats made by man; as is evident in the reason of the name.