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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.
Tertullian lib. de Proscript. cap. 36. appealing to the practice of the Apostle John, in the African Churches, mentioneth, as ⟨p. 126⟩his Faith that he taught; one God the Creator, and Jesus Christ the Son of God, and the Resurrection of the body, and that he joined the Law and Prophets, with the Evangelical, and Apostolic Writings, and thence drunk this Faith: And of his Practice he saith, Aquâ signat, Sancto Spiritu vestit; Euchristiâ pascit; as three distinct Ordinances. Lib. de Baptismo cap. 8. Having mentioned Baptism, (and the Unction joined to that, and not then to Confirmation) he addeth, De hinc manus imponitur, per benedictionem advocans, & invitans Spiritum Sanctum.
Tertullian lib. de Proscript. cap. 36. appealing to the practice of the Apostle John, in the Africane Churches, mentioneth, as ⟨p. 126⟩his Faith that he taught; one God the Creatour, and Jesus Christ the Sonne of God, and the Resurrection of the body, and that he joyned the Law and Prophets, with the Evangelical, and Apostolik Writings, and thence drunk this Faith: And of his Practice he saith, Aquâ signat, Sancto Spiritu vestit; Euchristiâ pascit; as three distinct Ordinances. Lib. de Baptismo cap. 8. Having mentioned Baptism, (and the Unction joyned to that, and not then to Confirmation) he addeth, De hinc manus imponitur, per benedictionem advocans, & invitans Spiritum Sanctum.
Idem de Resur. Carn. cap. 8. Sed & caro abluitur, ut anima emaculetur: Caro unguitur, ut anima consecretur: Caro signatur, ut & anima muaiatur: Caro manus Impositione adumbratur, ut & anima Spiritu illuminetur.
Cyprian ad Stephan. Epist. 72. Et ad Jubaian, is too much for it. I will not trouble you in citing any Writers, since General Councils were in use, because their testimony is enough. He that would see such, may read Barronius ad An. 35. at large. So much for the proof of the fitness of Imposition of hands in Confirmation.