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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 Seven and Thirtieth 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.
1. That God hath made abundance of promises to the Seed of the Faithful, and taketh them into the Covenant of Grace with their Parents, and saith that they are Holy, 1 Cor. 7.14; Protestants have copiously proved against Anabaptists and Papists. But it is Gods Mercy, and Christs Merit, Grace, and Covenant, that they are saved by: The Parents Faith is but that Qualification and Relation, which maketh them receptive and capable of this saving Grace. The Parents Faith saveth themselves, but as the Moral▪qualifying disposition and condition of Gods saving Gift: And to Infants it is required, not that they be Believers, but Believers Seed, devoted to God by Parents or Pro-Parents, whose they are.
1. That God hath made abundance of promises to the Seed of the Faithful, and taketh them into the Covenant of Grace with their Parents, and saith that they are Holy, 1 Cor. 7.14; Protestants have copiously proved against Anabaptists and Papists. But it is Gods Mercy, and Christs Merit, Grace, and Covenant, that they are saved by: The Parents Faith is but that Qualification and Relation, which maketh them receptive and capable of this saving Grace. The Parenrs Faith saveth themselves, but as the Moral▪qualifying disposition and condition of Gods saving Gift: And to Infants it is required, not that they be Believers, but Believers Seed, devoted to God by Parents or Pro-Parents, whose they are.
2. We doubt not, but regularly, where it may be had, this Dedication should be solemnly made by Baptismal Covenanting: Ask the Anabaptists whether we hold not this. But we believe, that as private Marriage maketh Husband and Wife before God, but solemn Matrimony is necessary for public Order, without which they may be punished as Fornicators: So if an Infant be the Child of one believing Parent, dedicated to God, he is Holy and in the same Covenant with the Parent, (and were else unclean:) But that before the Church, he is not regularly to be judged in Covenant till it be solemnized in Christs appointed way by Baptism.