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Confirmation and restoration the necessary means of reformation, and reconciliation; for the healing of…Confirmation and restauration the necessary means of reformation, and reconciliation; for the healing of…
Confirmation and restoration the necessary means of reformation, and reconciliation; for the healing of the corruptions and divisions of the churches: submissively, but earnestly tendered to the consideration of the sovereign powers, magistrates, ministers, and people, that they may awake, and be up and doing in the execution of so much, as appeareth to be necessary as they are true to Christ, his Church and Gospel, and to their own and others souls, and to the peace and welfare of the nations; and as they will answer the neglect to Christ, at their peril. / By Richard Baxter, an unworthy minister of Christ, that longeth to see the healing of the churches.Confirmation and restauration the necessary means of reformation, and reconciliation; for the healing of the corruptions and divisions of the churches: submissively, but earnestly tendered to the consideration of the soveraigne powers, magistrates, ministers, and people, that they may awake, and be up and doing in the execution of so much, as appeareth to be necessary as they are true to Christ, his Church and Gospel, and to their own and others souls, and to the peace and wellfare of the nations; and as they will answer the neglect to Christ, at their peril. / By Richard Baxter, an unworthy minister of Christ, that longeth to see the healing of the churches.
London: printed by A.M. for Nevil Simmons book-seller, 1658
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.
As their sins are not forgiven them till they are Converted, Mark 4. 12. So they must not be Baptised for the forgiveness of sins, till they Profess themselves Converted: Seeing to the Church non esse, & non apparere is all one. Repentance towards God, and Faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ, is ⟨p. 31⟩the sum of that Preaching that maketh Disciples, Acts 20. 21. And therefore both these must by Profession seem to be received, before any at age are Baptized.
As their sinnes are not forgiven them till they are Converted, Mark 4. 12. So they must not be Baptised for the forgiveness of sinnes, till they Profess themselves Converted: Seeing to the Church non esse, & non apparere is all one. Repentance towards God, and Faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ, is ⟨p. 31⟩the summe of that Preaching that maketh Disciples, Acts 20. 21. And therefore both these must by Profession seem to be received, before any at age are Baptized.
If as many as are Baptized into Christ, are Baptized into his death; and are buried with him by Baptism into his death, that like as Christ was raised from the dead, so we also should walk in Newness of life, Rom. 6. 4, 5. Then no doubt but such as were to be Baptized, did first Pro•ess this mortification, and a consent to be buried and revived with Christ, and to live to him in Newness of life. For Paul was never so much for the Opus operatum above the Papists, as to think that the Baptizing of an Infidel, might effect these high and excellent things. And he that Professeth not Faith, nor ever did, is to the Church an Infidel.