A76157:120
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.
3. As to the Nature of the Profession it self. 1. It must in General be Credible: For no man is bound to Believe that which is Incredible. The words are the signs of the mind, and as such they are to be uttered, and received. If they be contrary to the mind, they are false; and if wilfully contrary, they are a lie: And God doth not make a lie to be the Condition of Church-membership, or Privileges; nor doth he bind his Ministers, or Church, to believe a known lie: ⟨p. 44⟩Nothing but Real, or seeming truth is to be believed.1 2. More particularly, the Profession which we speak of, must have these Qualifications.
3. As to the Nature of the Profession it self. 1. It must in General be Credible: For no man is bound to Believe that which is Incredible. The words are the signs of the mind, and as such they are to be uttered, and received. If they be contrary to the mind, they are false; and if wilfully contrary, they are a lie: And God doth not make a lie to be the Condition of Church-membership, or Priviledges; nor doth he bind his Ministers, or Church, to believe a known lie: ⟨p. 44⟩Nothing but Real, or seeming truth is to be believed.1 2. More particularly, the Profession which we speak of, must have these Qualifications.
- 1Therefore it is to be made at years of understanding. The Papists themselves say in their Catechism, composed for the Armenians, Translated by Peter Paulus. pag 194. Tum recipiendum est Sacramentum hoc, quando ad usum rationis pervenit homo, fidemque profiteri incipit, & ut confirmetur, & stabiliatur in gratia opus habet.