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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.
But now, as Christ at his coming doth bring to the world a clearer Light, and fuller Revelation of Himself, and the mysteries of Redemption, and bring Life and Immortality to Light in the Gospel; and as the rising Sun, dispelleth the remnants of Legal darkness, and his Doctrine is fully called The Gospel, the Testament of Jesus Christ, so answerably he doth by, and with this Doctrine, give out such a measure of the Spirit, to the Church; as is Eminently called the Spirit of Jesus Christ. Which carrieth us ⟨p. 110⟩higher then the first Grace of Faith and Repentance, to those fuller degrees which were not ordinary, no not to the Godly in the time of the Law. And as this Spirit of Christ did extrinsically shine in the Glory of tongues and wondrous works, while those were necessary to the Church, and Christs service; so both then, and ever after it doth work (but in various degrees) for the Sanctifying of believers, and conforming their hearts and lives to Christ; in his humiliation, patience, self-denial, meekness, contempt of the world, obedience, &c. till at last we be conformed to him in his Glory.
But now, as Christ at his coming doth bring to the world a clearer Light, and fuller Revelation of Himself, and the mysteries of Redemption, and bring Life and Immortality to Light in the Gospel; and as the rising Sunne, dispelleth the remnants of Legal darkness, and his Doctrine is fully called The Gospel, the Testament of Jesus Christ, so answerably he doth by, and with this Doctrine, give out such a measure of the Spirit, to the Church; as is Eminently called the Spirit of Jesus Christ. Which carryeth us ⟨p. 110⟩higher then the first Grace of Faith and Repentance, to those fuller degrees which were not ordinary, no not to the Godly in the time of the Law. And as this Spirit of Christ did extrinsecally shine in the Glory of tongues and wonderous works, while those were necessary to the Church, and Christs service; so both then, and ever after it doth work (but in various degrees) for the Sanctifying of believers, and conforming their hearts and lives to Christ; in his humiliation, patience, self-denial, meekness, contempt of the world, obedience, &c. till at last we be conformed to him in his Glory.