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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.
1. The solemnity it self of our Transition into the number of Adult-members, and their Communion, is of very great advantage, as I shall manifest more anon.
1. THe solemnity it self of our Transition into the number of Adult-members, and their Communion, is of very great advantage, as I shall manifest more anon.
2.1 We that are commonly against the private Admission of Infants (at least except in some urgent case) have less reason to be for the private2 Transition and Admission of men among the ⟨p. 137⟩Adult, and that into a particular Governed Church.
- 1Read Dr Hammond's Pract. Catech. l. 5. §. 4. pag. 298, 299. Of the Communion of Saints.
- 2Albaspinaeus in Tenrtul. de Paenitent. cap. 8, 9. pag. 291. Cum pro foribus Templi starent paenitentes, pretereuntibus sacerdotibus, caeterisque fidelibus omnibus, omnino dolentis animi signis paenitentiam suam testabantur, lacrymis non parcebant, precibus institebant, volvebantur, & si quae alia habet paenitentia, quae miserecordiam movere possint; non omittebant, ut pacem recupearent. Primum ante sacerdotes procumbebant, martyribus deinde adgeniculabantur, caeteris denique fratribus & viduis, ut ait Paciamis, enixè supplicabant, ut à Deo & ab Ecclesiâ veniam pro see impetrarent.Albaspinaeus in Tērtul. de Paenitent. cap. 8, 9. pag. 291. Cum pro foribus Templi starent paenitentes, pretereuntibus sacerdotibus, caeterisque fidelibus omnibus, omnino dolentis animi signis paenitentiam suam testabantur, lacrymis non parcebant, precibus institebant, volvebantur, & si quae alia habet paenitentia, quae miserecordiam movere possint; non omittebant, ut pacem recupearent. Primum ante sacerdotes procumbebant, martyribus deinde adgeniculabantur, caeteris denique fratribus & viduis, ut ait Paciamis, enixè supplicabant, ut à Deo & ab Ecclesiâ veniam pro se impetrarent.