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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
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.
Prop. 11. The solemn Ministerial Investiture of Professors, into the Right of the Church privileges of the Adult, is either 1. Of the unbaptized, who are now first entered. 2. Or of the Baptized in Infancy, that never proved ungodly, nor violated that first Covenant. 3. Or of those Baptized, whether in Infancy or at Age, that have since Proved wicked, and broke that Covenant. The first of these Investitures is, to be by Baptism; the second by Confirmation; and the third by Absolution. So that the solemn Investiture that I am pleading for, is by Confirmation to one sort (that never proved ungodly since their Baptism) and by Absolution to the other sort that broke their Covenant.
Prop. 11. The solemn Ministerial Investiture of Professours, into the Right of the Church priviledges of the Adult, is either 1. Of the unbaptized, who are now first entered. 2. Or of the Baptized in Infancy, that never proved ungodly, nor violated that first Covenant. 3. Or of those Baptized, whether in Infancy or at Age, that have since Proved wicked, and broke that Covenant. The first of these Investitures is, to be by Baptism; the second by Confirmation; and the third by Absolution. So that the solemn Investiture that I am pleading for, is by Confirmation to one sort (that never proved ungodly since their Baptism) and by Absolution to the other sort that broke their Covenant.
The Baptism of the Adult, we have not now to do with. Of those that are Baptized in Infancy, some do betimes receive the secret seeds of Grace, which by the blessing of a holy education, (and some among the profane) is stirring within them, according to their capacity, and working them to God by actual desires, and working them from all known sin, and entertaining further Grace, and turning them into actual ⟨p. 92⟩acquaintance with Christ, as soon as they arrive at full natural capacity: so that they never were Actual ungodly persons. To these their Investiture in the state of Adult-members upon their personal Approved Profession, is a Confirmation of the mutual Covenant that it findeth them under, and of them in that Covenant.