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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.
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.
§. 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-Vnion and Communion: which is commonly confessed.
§. 5. If there be any place for contention here, it must be only about the validity of mens Received baptism: 1. As to the Minister and his part: 2. As to the mode and Ceremonies: 3. As to the qualification of the receiver or baptized.