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Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, or, Mr. Richard Baxters narrative of the most memorable passages of his…
Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, or, Mr. Richard Baxters narrative of the most memorable passages of his life and times faithfully published from his own original manuscript by Matthew Sylvester.Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, or, Mr. Richard Baxters narrative of the most memorable passages of his life and times faithfully publish'd from his own original manuscript by Matthew Sylvester.
London: printed for T. Parkhurst, 1696
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.
Farewell: Your Brethren and fellow Servants, Rich. Baxter, Jarvis Bryan, in the Name and at the Appointment of the rest. Kidderminster, Octob. 1653.
Farewel: Your Brethren and fellow Servants, Rich. Baxter, Iarvis Bryan, in the Name and at the Appointment of the rest. Kiderminster, Octob. 1653.
Brethren, Because you Directed your Letter to me by Name, I am bold to tell you my private Resolution of your first Question. I will do by the Children of Refusers, as by Strangers (except I know that they refuse through mere licentiousness). I dare not refuse to Baptize the Child of a Stranger, as such: but I will first speak with one of the Parents, and be more fully satisfied of their Knowledge, and Reasons of Dissent, and enquire of their Lives: and on the same Terms I admit Dissenters also to the Lord's Supper, viz. if there be no Charge against their Lives, and they come to me before hand, and satisfy me of their fitness. Still letting them know it is a dangerous case to live from under Order and Discipline, and that I do this to them but for a time till they can be satisfied, as I would do for a Stranger. Your Brother, Ri. Baxter. To our Reverend and Beloved Brethren the Associated Ministers in the County of Cumberland.
Brethren, BEcause you Directed your Letter to me by Name, I am bold to tell you my private Resolution of your first Question. I will do by the Children of Refusers, as by Strangers (except I know that they refuse through meer licentiousness). I dare not refuse to Baptize the Child of a Stranger, as such: but I will first speak with one of the Parents, and be more fully satisfied of their Knowledge, and Reasons of Dissent, and enquire of their Lives: and on the same Terms I admit Dissenters also to the Lord's Supper, viz. if there be no Charge against their Lives, and they come to me before hand, and satisfie me of their fitness. Still letting them know it is a dangerous case to live from under Order and Discipline, and that I do this to them but for a time till they can be satisfied, as I would do for a Stranger. Your Brother, Ri. Baxter. To our Reverend and Beloved Brethren the Associated Ministers in the County of Cumberland.