A76157:104
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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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, Rom. 6. 5, 6, 7, 8.
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 erre) And therefore Pastours 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 sinne might be destroyed, that henceforth they might not serve sinne, Rom. 6. 5, 6, 7, 8.
As many as have been Baptized into Christ, have put on Christ, and are all one in Christ Jesus: and are Abraham's Seed, and Heirs, according to promise, Gal. 3. 27, 28, 29. This speaks the Apostle of the Probability grounded on a credible Profession. And therefore it is clear, that the Profession was presupposed, that might support this charitable judgment. Our Baptism is the Solemnizing of our Marriage with Christ. And its a new and strange kind of Marriage, where there is no Profession of Consent.
As many as have been Baptized into Christ, have put on Christ, and are all one in Christ Jesus: and are Abrahams Seed, and Heirs, according to promise, Gal. 3. 27, 28, 29. This speaks the Apostle of the Probability grounded on a credible Profession. And thereforeit is clear, that the Profession was presupposed, that might support this charitable judgment. Our Baptism is the Solemnizing of our Marriage with Christ. And its a new and strang kind of Marriage, where there is no Profession of Consent.