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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
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2. If a man may by Confirmation be admitted into the Number of Adult Christians, in the Church Universal, without being admitted into a particular Church, then his Profession and Admission need not (in that case) to be before the Congregation: But the Antecedent is true: as I prove thus. A man may by Adult Baptism, be admitted first into the Universal Church only: (As was the Eunuch, the Jailer, Lydia, Sergius Paulus, and every first Convert in any ⟨p. 135⟩City, where the Apostles came:) Therefore a man may by Confirmation be admitted into the Number of the Adult, in the Catholic Church only: For the reason is the same, and the former admitteth them into the same number.
2. If a man may by Confirmation be admitted into the Number of Adult Christians, in the Church Universal, without being admitted into a particular Church, then his Profession and Admission need not (in that case) to be before the Congregation: But the Antecedent is true: as I prove thus. A man may by Adult Baptism, be admitted first into the Universal Church only: (As was the Eunuch, the Jaylour, Lydia, Sergius Paulus, and every first Convert in any ⟨p. 135⟩City, where the Apostles came:) Therefore a man may by Confirmation be admitted into the Number of the Adult, in the Catholick Church only: For the reason is the same, and the former admitteth them into the same number.
The Consequence of the Major is plain. For no one Congregation more then another, can claim the cognisance of the Admission of a member into the Universal Church, or Confirming them in it.