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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
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In our Baptism we put off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the Circumcision of Christ, being buried with him, and rising with him through Faith—quickened with him, and having all our trespasses forgiven, Col. 3. 11, 12, 13. And will any man, yea, will Paul, ascribe all this to those that did not so much as Profess the things signified, or the necessary Condition? Will Baptism, in the judgment of a wise man, do all this for an ⟨p. 32⟩Infidel, or one that Professeth not to be a Christian?
In our Baptism we put off the body of the sinnes of the flesh, by the Circumcision of Christ, being buried with him, and rising with him through Faith—quickned with him, and having all our trespasses forgiven, Col. 3. 11, 12, 13. And will any man, yea, will Paul, ascribe all this to those that did not so much as Profess the things signified, or the necessary Condition? Will Baptism, in the judgment of a wise man, do all this for an ⟨p. 32⟩Infidel, or one that Professeth not to be a Christian?
Baptism is said to save us, 1 Pet. 3. 21. And therefore they that will be Baptized must profess the qualifications necessary to the Saved.
The Key's of the Kingdom of Heaven are put into the Churches hands; and they that are loosed on Earth shall be loosed in Heaven (if the Key do not err) And therefore Pastors of the Church must absolve none (by Baptism) that do not by Profession seem to be Absolvable in Heaven: They must Profess to have the old man Crucified with Christ, that the Body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth they might not serve sin,