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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.
3. And all that are truly baptized persons are Christians or visible Church-members, till they revolt or are cast out, all the Christian world from the days of the Apostles are agreed.
3. And all that are truly baptized persons are Christians or visible Church-members, till they revolt or are cast out, all the Christian world from the dayes of the Apostles are agreed.
4. And as all visible Covenanters in baptism have been taken for visible Christians, so all sincere heart-Covenanters have ever been supposed by the Church to have by Baptism a sealed and delivered pardon of sin, and right to adoption, and everlasting life.
All this is so evident that it is labour in vain to prove it, that this hath been the constant consent of the Christian world, and so continueth to this day: And all that are Christians are still in all Countries thus baptized.
§. 4. And if Baptism be the common symbol of Christianity, and the common making of a visible Christian, then it must needs be the constitutive term or qualification sufficient to mens first Church-Union and Communion: which is commonly confessed.