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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. 13. Ministerial Imposition of hands in Confirmation, and the fore-described sort of Absolution, is a lawful, and convenient Ceremony, and ordinarily to be used, as it hath been of old by the Universal Church. But yet it is not of such Necessity, but that we must dispense in this Ceremony with scrupulous Consciences, that cannot be satisfied to submit to it.
Prop. 13. Ministerial Imposition of hands in Confirmation, and the fore-described sort of Absolution, is a lawfull, and convenient Ceremony, and ordinarily to be used, as it hath been of old by the Ʋniversall Church. But yet it is not of such Necessity, but that we must dispense in this Ceremony with scrupulous Consciences, that cannot be satisfied to submit to it.
Thus must we take heed of both extremes: either of rejecting a Ceremony, that hath so much to be said for […] as this hath: or of making it more Necessary then it is, to ⟨p. 96⟩the wrong of tender Consciences, that are not yet ripe enough, to be well informed of it, and to Answer the Objections that they have heard against it; nor yet to receive your Answers.
THus must we take heed of both extreams: either of rejecting a Ceremony, that hath so much to be said for 〈…〉 as this hath: or of making it more Necessary then it is, to ⟨p. 96⟩the wrong of tender Consciences, that are not yet ripe enough, to be well informed of it, and to Answer the Objections that they have heard against it; nor yet to receive your Answers.