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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.
5. If the person baptized do not so much as profess consent, or profess not to consent, nor to intend to be then baptized, it is no baptism before God or the Church.
6. If he profess to be baptized in general, but deny any Essential in particular, it is not the true Christian baptism, but must be better done.
§. 5. When any came in so great error as that the Church scarce knew whether it was an Essential part of faith and baptism that was denied, it made the Controversy hard about their re-baptizing. Many thought that the Photinians and Arians denying Christs Godhead as of the same substance with the father, denied an essential article, and were to be re-baptized if they so entered at first: Our Socinians are much worse, that deny Christs Godhead in a fuller sense. And how doth he believe in Christ that believeth him not to be God, which is most eminently essential to him?
§. 5. When any came in so great errour as that the Church scarce knew whether it was an Essential part of faith and baptism that was denyed, it made the Controversie hard about their re-baptizing. Many thought that the Photinians and Arians denying Christs Godhead as of the same substance with the father, denyed an essential article, and were to be re-baptized if they so entred at first: Our Socinians are much worse, that deny Christs Godhead in a fuller sence. And how doth he believe in Christ that believeth him not to be God, which is most eminently essential to him?