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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. 18. Those that were never thus Ministerially and Explicitly Approved, Confirmed or Absolved (after an ungodly life,) but have been permitted without it, to join ordinarily with the Church in Prayer and Praises, and have been admitted to the Communion of the Church, in the Lords Supper, are approved and confirmed, Eminently though not Formally: though in so doing, both the Pastors and themselves did sin against God, by the violation of his holy Order. So that such may be a true Church, though much corrupted or disordered.
Prop. 18. Those that were never thus Ministerially and Explicitly Approved, Confirmed or Absolved (after an ungodly life,) but have been permitted without it, to joyne ordinarily with the Church in Prayer and Praises, and have been admitted to the Communion of the Church, in the Lords Supper, are approved and confirmed, Eminently though not Formally: though in so doing, both the Pastours and themselves did sin against God, by the violation of his holy Order. So that such may be a true Church, though much corrupted or disordered.
This I add for two Reasons: 1. To confute them that say our Churches are no true Churches, for want of an explicit Profession. 2. And to acquaint you who it is among us, that are, or are not to be called to Confirmation.
THis I adde for two Reasons: 1. To confute them that say our Churches are no true Churches, for want of an explicite Profession. 2. And to acquaint you who it is among us, that are, or are not to be called to Confirmation.
1. It is not the degree of clearness and openness in our Profession, or in the Ministerial Approbation or Admission, that is Essential to a Church-member. An obscure Profession may be truly a Profession. Some obscure Profession, hath been ordinarily made by our people in this Land heretofore,