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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.
§. 21. By all this it is evident that the Church must make Baptism the term of Christian Catholic unity and concord as necessary ad esse, and the Creed as needful and apt ad bene esse ordinarily.
§. 21. By all this it is evident that the Church must make Baptism the term of Christian Catholick unity and concord as necessary ad esse, and the Creed as needful and apt ad bene esse ordinarily.
§. 22. There is a controversy raised (as aforesaid by Donatists and other Sectaries, so) now by the Papists, whether the person baptized must not also own, 1. the Ministry in general, 2. the particular Minister that baptizeth him, 3. and the particular Church into which he is received; 4. and subject himself by profession to such pastoral power. To all which I shall distinctly answer.
§. 22. There is a controversie raised (as aforesaid by Donatists and other Sectaries, so) now by the Papists, whether the person baptized must not also own, 1. the Ministry in general, 2. the particular Minister that baptizeth him, 3. and the particular Church into which he is received; 4. and subject himself by profession to such pastoral power. To all which I shall distinctly answer.
§. 23. I. To the first, 1. what is connoted is not always a necessary part of the contract: A man cannot be baptized but he must know that some one hath power to baptize him.
§. 23. I. To the first, 1. what is connoted is not alwayes a necessary part of the contract: A man cannot be baptized but he must know that some one hath power to baptize him.