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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 Fourteenth accused Point.
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.
3. Equals may forgive Injuries to Friends and Enemies.
4. Pastors may on just cause, forgive the Church penalties, of Excommunication, which they had power to inflict: And all the Flock must forgive and receive the penitent accordingly.
5. When a Sinner by Faith and Repentance, truly performeth the Condition of Gods pardon expressed in Scripture, the Ministers of Christ are by Office authorized to declare and pronounce him pardoned ⟨p. 71⟩by God, and by the Sacraments of Baptism and the Lords Supper to Invest him in a pardoned State, by delivering him a Sealed pardon: But only Suppositively, If his Faith and Repentance be sincere, else he hath not Gods pardon of the Divine Punishment. This is all true and plain, and enough.
But we detest their Doctrine that say, 1. That men can pardon the Spiritual and Eternal Punishment, any otherwise than consequently declaring and delivering Gods pardon, which shall hold good, if the Priest refuse to declare or deliver it.