A27054:1144
The true and only way of concord of all the Christian churches the desirableness…
The true and only way of concord of all the Christian churches the desirableness of it, and the detection of false dividing terms / opened by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Hancock, 1680
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.
9. That it is not necessary to baptism of the adult that they make any covenant, promise or vow to God, nor to the baptism of Infants that Parents or Proparents devote them to Christ by entering them into an obliging Vow or Covenant.
10. That Baptism was not instituted to invest the baptized in his right to pardon and life, but only to enter him into the visible Church, where as a disciple he may learn how to come to such right and pardon hereafter.
11. That the adult duly baptized have no right to the Communion of the Church, though they profess to continue their Covenant-consent, and none disprove the truth of their profession, unless ⟨p. 314⟩they have some higher qualification and title.
11. That the adult duely baptized have no right to the Communion of the Church, though they profess to continue their Covenant-consent, and none disprove the truth of their profession, unless ⟨p. 314⟩they have some higher qualification and title.