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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.
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.
Yet if the Catechumens did fall into gross sinne in time of their expectation and learning, they were so much the longer delayed, because it signifyed, that their first professed desires of entering into the Church, upon Christs terms, were not right.
But the Baptized stand upon other terms: For 1. They are already in Covenant with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; and have renounced the flesh, the world, and the Devil, and promised obedience to God, and to live according to their Covenant. And this the Church hath still required of them, as I showed out of Justin Martyr,and others before* Dionysius (or whoever else) in lib: de Hierarch Eccles.saith, Ipse autem se omnino ea quae tradentur, sequuturum esse pollicetur: And Ex eo praeterea quaerit, num ita instituat vivere, cum promisit asseverationibus, &c. upon which saithAlbaspinaeus, Quia scilicet fidem Christianam, Christianumque vivendi genus, & mores, sese complexos persequnturisque jucabant, antequam baptizarentur. (in Tertul.de Paenit. pag. 289.) & Postea. Non accedebant ⟨p. 132⟩ad Baptismum nisi de rebus fidei plane instructi, id est, de Dei magnitudine, & potestate rebusque quae in Evangeliis continentur, uno excepto Eucharistiae mysterio; neque baptizabantur, nisi post quam ea omnia se credere jurassent, quorum fides a fide poenitentiae incipiebat,&c. Et in sequ. Jucabant in Baptismo solennibus verbis, see nunquam* peccaturos; deinde renunciabant Diabolo & pompis ejus. Denique Censurâ, si peccarent post baptismum coercebantur.So that men that are engaged in covenant with God, must keep Covenant, or manifest themselves Penitent, for the violation of it, before they are admitted to further Privileges. There is a long time, in which they grow up from an Infant-state to an Adult; and how they live in that time, must be enquired after.