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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
THE PAPERS That passed between the COMMISSIONERS Appointed by His M… › Of the CATECHISM. › Section
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[Two only as generally necessary to salvation, &c. These words are a Reason of the Answer that there are two only, and therefore not to be left out.]1
- 1Sect. 5.
Repl. The words seem to imply by distinction, that there may be others not so necessary: and the Lords Supper was not by the Ancients taken to be necessary to the salvation of all.
Repl. The words seem to imply by distinction, that there may be others not so necessary: and the Lords Supper was not by the Antients taken to be necessary to the salvation of all.
[We desire that the entering of Infants, &c.] The effect of Children's Baptism, 1depends neither upon their own present actual Faith and Repentance, which the Catechism saith expressly, they cannot perform; nor upon the Faith and Repentance of their natural Parents, or Pro-parents, or of their Godfathers or Godmothers; but upon the Ordinance and Institution of Christ: But it is requisite that when they come to age, they should perform these Conditions of Faith and Repentance, for which also their Godfathers and Godmothers charitably undertook on their behalf. And what they do for the Infant in this Case, the Infant himself is truly said to do, as in the Courts of this Kingdom daily, the Infant does answer by his Guardian, and it is usual for to do homage by proxy, and for Princes to marry by proxy. For the further justification of this Answer, See St. Aug. Ep. 23. ad Bonifac. Nihil aliud credere quam sidem habere; ac per hoc cum respondetur Parvulum credere qui fidei nondum habet effectum, respondetur Fidem habere propter fidei Sacramentum, & convertere se ad Deum propter Conversionis Sacramentum, quia & ipsa responsio ad celebrationem pertinet Sacramenti: itaque parvulum, etsi nondum fides illa, quae in credentium voluntate consistit, tamen ipsius sidei Sacramentum, fidelem facit.]