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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.
WE find in Scripture, that the Converted were suddenly Baptized, and they stayed not for any Reformation of life to go before. Indeed the Ancient Churches afterwards kept their Catechumens long in expectation; but that was not to see their lives first reformed, but that they might have time to teach them the Doctrine of Christ, which they must know before they could be Converts indeed. The Apostles did suddenly Baptize, converted Jews and Proselytes,1 because they had so much preparatory knowledge, as that a shorter teaching might acquaint them with the Christian doctrine. But the Heathens ⟨p. 131⟩must belong in learning so much as the Jews knew before Conversion.
VVE find in Scripture, that the Converted were suddenly Baptized, and they stayed not for any Reformation of life to go before. Indeed the Ancient Chrches aferwards kept their Catechumens long in expectation; but that was not to see their lives first reformed, but that they might have time to teach them the Doctrine of Christ, which they must know before they could be Converts indeed. The Apostles did suddenly Baptize, converted Jews and Proselites,1 because they had so much preparatory knowledg, as that a shorter teaching might acquaint them with the Christian doctrine. But the Heathens ⟨p. 131⟩must belong in learning so much as the Jews knew before Conversion.
- 1Leg. quae habet Grotius Discus. Apol. Rivet. p. 235. Cum antecedent•h. ex Anti•. & de suis.
Yet if the Catechumens did fall into gross sin in time of their expectation and learning, they were so much the longer delayed, because it signified, that their first professed desires of entering into the Church, upon Christs terms, were not right.