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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.
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.
Cyprian ad Stephan. Epist. 72. Et ad Jubaian, is too much for it. I will not trouble you in citing any Writers, since General Councels 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.
I come now to the second Part of my Proposition, ⟨p. 127⟩viz. That this Ceremony is not of such Necessity, as that such as scruple it, should be denied liberty of forbearing the reception of it, if they submit to the Ministerial trial and Approbation of their Profession, and admission, and reception to Church privileges.
I come now to the second Part of my Proposition, ⟨p. 127⟩viz. That this Ceremony is not of such Necessity, as that such as scruple it, should be denied liberty of forbearing the reception of it, if they submit to the Ministerial tryal and Approbation of their Profession, and admission, and reception to Church priviledges.
1For proof of this consider, 1. That we do not find that God any where Instituted this sign, as a matter of Necessity, still without interruption, to be used; but only that by holy men it was applied as a convenient sign, or gesture to the works, in which they used it. Even as Lifting up of hands in Prayer was ordinarily used as a fit gesture, not wilfully to be neglected without cause, and yet not of flat necessity; or as kneeling in Prayer, is ordinarily meet, but not alway necessary. We find no more Scripture for the one then for the other: