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Mr. Baxter's vindication of the Church of England in her rites and ceremonies, discipline,…
Mr. Baxter's vindication of the Church of England in her rites and ceremonies, discipline, and church-orders as faithfully taken out of his own writings, without either false citation, or fraudulent alteration : to which is prefixed his epistle to the non-conformists, being a just and true abstract of his book entitled, A defence of the principles of love.Mr. Baxter's vindication of the Church of England in her rites and ceremonies, discipline, and church-orders as faithfully taken out of his own writings, without either false citation, or fraudulent alteration : to which is prefixed his epistle to the non-conformists, being a just and true abstract of his book entituled, A defence of the principles of love.
London: printed for Walter Kettilby, 1682
Mr. BAXTER's VINDICATION OF THE CHURCH of ENGLAND In her Rites, and… › 2. Episcopal Confirmation.
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.
Scripture-Proof of Infant-Church-membership, Part. II. cap. 6. p. 120.
I humbly propound (says Mr. Baxter) that the ancient practice of Confirmation may be reduced to its primitive nature (i.e. as 'tis now used in the Church of England) as plainly appears by his calling it (in the same page) The old Order of Confirmation by Bishops: For this he cites Calvin as earnestly desiring it, Instit. l. 4. cap. 19.
In the 122. page, he intimates Confirmation also to be one of those plain Duties not to be wiped out, lest the Directory be found more defective than the Common▪Prayer-Book, and left the World be made believe that 'tis such things (i.e. such plain Duties) as these that we find fault with. He adds, that since there are so many learned and judicious opposers, (meaning the Episcopal Divines) observing the alterations, therefore (says he) 'tis but modest and rational to desire, either the establishment of the fore-mentioned particulars, viz. Confirmation, Standing up at the Creed, &c. or the publication of satisfactory Reasons against them.
And in his Political Aphorisms, Thes. 236. Let Ministers