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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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Answ. Such are materially not the Visible Church, and have not a Profession; and are to be taught; and if they will fully remain in that darkness, are to be cast out.
If you would have the Testimonies of Protestants, you may read above threescore of them, expressly maintaining that it is a Profession of Saving Faith that is prerequisite to to our Right of Sacraments, cited in my forementioned Disputation second. To which I add 33. more, cited to a like purpose in my fifth Disputation of Sacraments: And to these add the large testimony of Davenant, with his many Arguments, on Colos. 1. vers. 18. too large to recite.
If you would have the Testimonies of Protestants, you may read above threescore of them, expressly maintaining that it is a Profession of Saving Faith that is prerequisite to to our Right of Sacraments, cited in my forementioned Disputation second. To which I adde 33. more, cited to a like purpose in my fift Disputation of Sacraments: And to these adde the large testimony of Davenant, with his many Arguments, on Colos. 1. vers. 18. too large to recite.
And for the later sort of Episcopal Divines, that they also agree in the same, I will satisfy you from an Eminent man among them, Mr Herbert Thorndike, in his Discourse of the Right of the Church, pag. 31, 32. where he saith [And hereby we see how binding and loosing sins, is attributed to the Keys of the Church: Which being made a Visible Society, by the power of holding Assemblies, to which ⟨p. 49⟩no man is to be admitted, till there be just presumption, that he is of the Heavenly Jerusalem, that is above.] I shall add more from him anon.