A69535:505
The grand debate between the most reverend bishops and the Presbyterian divines appointed by…
The grand debate between the most reverend bishops and the Presbyterian divines appointed by His Sacred Majesty as commissioners for the review and alteration of the Book of common prayer, &c. : being an exact account of their whole proceedings : the most perfect copy.
London printed : s.n., 1661
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.
Receive remission of sins by spiritual Regeneration]. Most proper for Baptism 1is our spiritual Regeneration, S. John 3. Unless a man be born again of Water and the Spirit, &c. And by this is received remission of sins, Acts 2. 3. Repent, and be baptized every one of you, for the remission of sins's So the Creed [one Baptism for the remission of sins.]
Receive remission of sins by spiritual Regeneration]. Most proper for Baptism 1is our spiritual Regeneration, S. John 3. Unlesse a man be born again of Water and the Spirit, &c. And by this is received remission of sins, Acts 2. 3. Repent, and be baptized every one of you, for the remission of sins's So the Creed [one Baptism for the remission of sins.]
- 1Sect 6. pag. 24.
Repl. Baptism, as an outward Administration, is our visible Sacramental Regeneration: Baptism as containing, with the Sign, the thing signified, is our spiritual real Regeneration. As we are regenerated before Baptism, (as, you know, adult Believers are), so we cannot pray to receive remission of sins by that same Regeneration renewed. As we are regenerated really in Baptism; that Regeneration and Remission, are conjunct benefits: But if Baptism at once give Regeneration and Remission, it follows not that it gives Remission by Regeneration: But as Regeneration comprehendeth the whole change (real or Physical) and relative; so we acknowledge, that as the part is given by the whole, you may say that Remission is given by Regeneration, but more fitly in it than by it; But we are not willing to make more ado about words than needs.