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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. VI. It is not every kind of Profession that is the Condition, or necessary qualification of those, that are to be admitted to the Privileges of Adult-amembers, but such a Profession, as God hath made necessary by his express Word, and by the nature of the Object, and the uses and ends, to which he doth require it. It must be a Profession of True Christianity in all the Essentials. What are the Essentials, as to Objects and Acts: It must be a Credible Profession. 1. It must seem to be Understanding. 2. And serious. 3. And voluntary, upon deliberation. ⟨image 9⟩4. Not nullified by a contradiction in word or deed. 5. It must be Practice first, that must make words Credible, when the person by perfidiousness hath forfeited his credit.
PROP. VI. It is not every kind of Profession that is the Condition, or necessary qualification of those, that are to be admitted to the Priviledges of Adult-amembers, but such a Profession, as God hath made necessary by his express Word, and by the nature of the Object, and the uses and ends, to which he doth require it. It must be a Profession of True Christianity in all the Essentials. What are the Essentials, as to Objects and Acts: It must be a Credible Profession. 1. It must seeme to be Understanding. 2. And serious. 3. And voluntary, upon deliberation. ⟨image 9⟩4. Not nullified by a contradiction in word or deed. 5. It must be Practice first, that must make words Credible, when the person by perfidiousness hath forfeited his credit.
PROP. VII. The Profession of those that expect the Church-state and Privileges of the Adult, is to be tried, judged and approved, by the Pastors of the Church, to whose Office it is that it belongeth. 1. An untried Profession must not serve: proved. 2. Pastors by Office are the Triers and Judges, of the Profession of such, as to these Ends: proved by 14 undeniable Arguments; and Objections Answered. Consent of the Ancients.