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The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholic religion against popery proving…The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholike religion against popery proving…
The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholic religion against popery proving that popery is against the Holy Scriptures, the unity of the catholic church, the consent of the ancient doctors, the plainest reason, and common judgment of sense it self / by Richard Baxter.The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholike religion against popery proving that popery is against the Holy Scriptures, the unity of the catholike church, the consent of the antient doctors, the plainest reason, and common judgment of sense it self / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1657
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.
15. That Sacraments of the new Law do confer grace that makes us acceptable, or justifying Grace, ex opere operato, i. e. upon that very account, because the external Sacrament is administered, if they put not the Bar of mortal sin.
15. That Sacraments of the new Law do confer grace that makes us acceptable, or justifying Grace, ex opere operato, i. e. upon that very account, because the external Sacrament is administred, if they put not the Bar of mortal sin.
- 15. I would we could see this in the fruits and proof. But de opere operato they are not themselves agreed of the sense.5. I would we could see this in the fruits and proof. But de opere operato they are not themselves agreed of the sence.
6. That grace is contained in the Sacraments as in a vessel, nay that the Sacraments are Physical instrumental causes of Grace, and that they do work holiness by a power put into them by God, as the heat of the fire is the cause of the burning of the wood.
17. That there is necessarily required the intention of the Administrator to the truth of the Sacrament, at least of doing what the Church does.
- 17. His real intention is necessary to make it a lawful administration as to himself, but not to others: but his seeming intention, and their own seeming intention is necessary to the external being of the Sacrament that it be no nullity: And the receivers real intention is necessary to the effects and well being of it to himself.