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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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Arg. 10. No man in the Administration of holy Ordinances, is ordinarily to renounce his own Reason and Conscience, and to act ⟨p. 60⟩against them. But thus it would be if we have not the approving of the Profession, or Qualification of those that we must administer them to: Therefore—He that is to Execute here is to judge: For 1. Else you will force Ministers to go against their Reason, and Conscience in all administrations. 2. You will deny them so much as Judicium Discretionis, which you allow to every Christian, much more Judicium Directionis, which belongeth to their Office. Every man must judge and understand what he doth, and why he doth it: you will not force the people to participate of Sacraments, against their Consciences. Why then should Ministers be forced to Give them against their Consciences? Administering is their work: and therefore they must know why they do it, and on what grounds: Else you will make them but like hangmen, or worse, if they must do Execution against their judgments, because it is another's judgment. And whose judgment is it, that we must follow, when we go against our own?
Arg. 10. No man in the Administration of holy Ordinances, is ordinarily to renounce his own Reason and Conscience, and to act ⟨p. 60⟩against them. But thus it would be if we have not the approving of the Profession, or Qualification of those that we must administer them to: Therefore—He that is to Execute here is to judge: For 1. Else you will force Ministers to go against their Reason, and Conscience in all administrations. 2. You will deny them so much as Judicium Discretionis, which you allow to every Christian, much more Judicium Directionis, which belongeth to their Office. Every man must judge and understand what he doth, and why he doth it: you will not force the people to participate of Sacraments, against their Consciences. Why then should Ministers be forced to Give them against their Consciences? Administring is their work: and therefore they must know why they do it, and on what grounds: Else you will make them but like hangmen, or worse, if they must do Execution against their judgments, because it is anothers judgment. And whose judgment is it, that we must follow, when we go against our own?