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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 Three and Fortieth 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.
But we hold, 1. That men should be supposed by the Ordinances to be true Christians, and to have competent Ministerial Abilities before they Ordain them.
2. That now miraculous gifts cease, no man can tell when any other inward Grace is given by Imposition of hands in Ordination, than Relative, which is Obligation and Authority for the work of the Ministry. And Durandus and other of their School-men, say that their Indelible Character is no other. And the rest know not what to make of it.
3. If we read of Multitudes of Debauched, Ignorant, Apostatical Popes and Prelates, and many Ages of Church Barbarism, and Brutishness, (even in Baroni•s, Genebrard, and the fiercest Papists;) and if we see Priests after Ordination to be Ignorant, Drunkards, Fornicators, unable and unapt to Teach, haters of a Godly Life, we cannot tell what Grace it is that these men are said to receive in Ordination: Whatever it is, it will not keep them out of Hell, as it keeps them not from serving Satan.
3. If we read of Multitudes of Debauched, Ignorant, Apostatical Popes and Prelates, and many Ages of Church Barbarism, and Bruitishness, (even in Baroni•s, Genebrard, and the fiercest Papists;) and if we see Priests after Ordination to be Ignorant, Drunkards, Fornicators, unable and unapt to Teach, haters of a Godly Life, we cannot tell what Grace it is that these men are said to receive in Ordination: Whatever it is, it will not keep them out of Hell, as it keeps them not from serving Satan.