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Which is the true church? the whole Christian world, as headed only by Christ…
Which is the true church? the whole Christian world, as headed only by Christ ... or, the Pope of Rome and his subjects as such? : in three parts ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London : Printed, and are to be sold by Richard Janeway ..., 1679
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. And his fifth sort he confesseth himself to be uncertain, which yet its doubted are no small part that go for Papists.
And note, I pray you, that it is the present Church which they use to approach to for necessary resolution; and the Recentiors are more the present Church than the Ancients. And according to these, 1. Their Church is confessedly doubtful or unknown as to most or multitudes of members. 2. And note; that their Articles being but two, That God is, and that he rewardeth works, all the common Heathens of the world, and all the Mahometans, are of the Papists Faith and Church, according to this opinion. 3. But mark, Reader, another desperate corruption, That Baptism must concur with these two articles. O horrid corruption of Christianity it self! Is this antiquity and tradition? Did the Christian Church use to baptize men that believed neither in Jesus Christ nor the Holy Ghost, if they did but believe a God and a Rewarder? Do you baptize such in your Church? I suppose even Pope Stephen himself would have been for the re-baptizing of such.
And note, I pray you, that it is the present Church which they use to approach to for necessary resolution; and the Recentiors are more the present Church than the Ancients. And according to these, 1. Their Church is confessedly doubtful or unknown as to most or multitudes of members. 2. And note; that their Articles being but two, That God is, and that he rewardeth works, all the common Heathens of the world, and all the Mahometans, are of the Papists Faith and Church, according to this opinion. 3. But mark, Reader, another desperate corruption, That Baptism must concur with these two articles. O horrid corruption of Christianity it self! Is this antiquity and tradition? Did the Christian Church use to baptize men that believed neither in Jesus Christ nor the Holy Ghost, if they did but believe a God and a Rewarder? Do you baptize such in your Church? I suppose even Pope Stephen himself would have been for the re-baptining of such.