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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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5. When by Covenant-breaking, and Perfidiousness, or often Lying, a man is become ⟨p. 46⟩come Incredible, having forfeited the Credit of his word, with wise and charitable men, this man must give us a Practical, as well as Verbal Profession, before we can again admit him, to the Privileges of the Church. For though we are not to be so strict, as some old Fathers seem to have been, and the Novations were, that would not admit such Penitents again into the Church at all, but leave them to Gods own Judgment; yet must we not go against Reason and Scripture, and the Nature of the thing, in believing that which is not to be believed; nor to cast by all Order and Discipline, and prostitute Gods Ordinances to the lusts of men, and make them a scorn, or level the Church of Christ with the world.
5. When by Covenant-breaking, and Perfidiousness, or often Lying, a man is become ⟨p. 46⟩come Incredible, having forfeited the Credit of his word, with wise and charitable men, this man must give us a Practical, as well as Verbal Profession, before we can again admit him, to the Priviledges of the Church. For though we are not to be so strict, as some old Fathers seem to have been, and the Novations were, that would not admit such Penitents again into the Church at all, but leave them to Gods own Judgment; yet must we not go against Reason and Scripture, and the Nature of the thing, in believing that which is not to be believed; nor to cast by all Order and Discipline, and prostitute Gods Ordinances to the lusts of men, and make them a scorn, or level the Church of Christ with the world.
The Testimonies cited by me on another occasion, in the foresaid Disputations, show the Judgment of Protestants in these Points, and somewhat of the Judgment of Antiquity. I shall recite but those on the Title page of the third Disputation.
The Testimonies cited by me on another occasion, in the foresaid Disputations, shew the Judgment of Protestants in these Points, and somewhat of the Judgment of Antiquity. I shall recite but those on the Title page of the third Disputation.