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The Protestant religion truly stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard BaxterThe Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter
The Protestant religion truly stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Daniel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.The Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Danel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1692
Protestant Religion Truly Stated, and Justified, &c. › The Seventh accused Point.
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4. That therefore the Church as it signifieth only the said regenerate true Christians, hath no Damning Error, or none but what is pardoned, as consistent with saving Faith and Holiness.
4. That therefore the Church as it signifieth only the said regenerate true Christians, hath no Damning Errour, or none but what is pardoned, as consistent with saving Faith and Holiness.
5. That the Universal Visible Church, is the whole Company of men on Earth, that profess true saving Faith, and are by Covenant Vow Baptized into this Profession: And that all this true Visible Church, professeth no Error, inconsistent with their Profession of the foresaid saving Faith: Because the profession of saving Faith is essential to visible Christianity, and to the visible Church.
5. That the Universal Visible Church, is the whole Company of men on Earth, that profess true saving Faith, and are by Covenant Vow Baptized into this Profession: And that all this true Visible Church, professeth no Errour, inconsistent with their Profession of the foresaid saving Faith: Because the profession of saving Faith is essential to visible Christianity, and to the visible Church.
For mark, that I say not that they profess no Error inconsistent with sincere Faith in themselves subjectively, nor yet that as to objective Faith, may not by unseen consequence overthrow it: For there is such a concatenation of Divine revealed ⟨p. 46⟩Truths, that it is a doubtful case, whether any one Error (which all men have,) do not by remote Consequence subvert the very Foundations. But no true Visible Church or Christian, so professeth any one Error, as not to profess the essential points of Faith and Godliness, tho' they may think falsely that both are true. Therefore Protestants teach, that unseen Consequences are not to be so charged on those that see them not, and hold fast the (injured) Truth, as if it were a known or direct denial of the Truth.