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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.
PROP. XI. The solemn Ministerial Investiture of Professors into the right of the Church-Privileges of the Adult, is either 1. Of the Unbaptized, who are now first entered. 2. Or of the Baptized in Infancy, that never proved ungodly, nor violated that first Covenant. 3. Or of those Baptized (whether in Infancy or at Age) that have since proved wicked and broke the Covenant. The first of these Investitures is to be by Baptism; the second by Confirmation, and the third by Absolution. So that the solemn Investiture that now I am pleading for, is by Confirmation to one sort, (that never proved ungodly since their Baptism) and by Absolution to the other sort (that ⟨image 10⟩broke their Covenant) which yet hath a certain Confirmation in, or with it.
PROP. XI. The solemn Ministerial Investiture of Professours into the right of the Church-Priviledges of the Adult, is either 1. Of the Unbaptized, who are now first entred. 2. Or of the Baptized in Infancy, that never proved ungodly, nor violated that first Covenant. 3. Or of those Baptized (whether in Infancy or at Age) that have since proved wicked and broke the Covenant. The first of these Investitures is to be by Baptism; the second by Confirmation, and the third by Absolution. So that the solemn Investiture that now I am pleading for, is by Confirmation to one sort, (that never proved ungodly since their Baptism) and by Absolution to the other sort (that ⟨image 10⟩broke their Covenant) which yet hath a certain Confirmation in, or with it.
PROP. XII. This solemn Investiture on personal Profession, being thus proved the Ordinance of God, for the solemn renewing the Covenant of Grace, between God and the Adult-Covenanter, it must needs follow that it is a Corroborating Ordinance, and that Corroborating Grace is to be expected in it from God, by all that come to it in sincerity of heart: And so it hath the name of Confirmation upon that account also.