A76157:305
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.
supposing some to be mixed among them, that are more Faithfully devoted to God in Baptism, and better educated, in the fear of God.
supposing some to be mixt among them, that are more Faithfully devoted to God in Baptism, and better educated, in the feare of God.
2. Now let us see what are the real, visible, undeniable fruits of this defective sinful course. Because men build upon this Fundamental falsehood, that infant Baptism upon the Parents Profession, doth give them right to the Church-state and Privileges of the Adult, without any personal Profession and Covenanting with God, when they come to the use of reason, which the Church must have cognisance of; and so they that entered somewhat more Regularly into an Infant Church state, do become Adult-members secretly, unobservedly, and no body well knows how: Hereupon it followeth,
2. Now let us see what are the real, visible, undenyable fruits of this defective sinful course. Because men build upon this Fundamental falshood, that infant Baptism upon the Parents Profession, doth give them right to the Church-state and Priviledges of the Adult, without any personal Profession and Covenanting with God, when they come to the use of reason, which the Church must have cognisance of; and so they that entred somewhat more Regularly into an Infant Church state, do become Adult-members secretly, unobservedly, and no body well knows how: Hereupon it followeth,
1. That our Churches are lamentably corrupted and diseased, (though they are true Churches, and have Life in them) while they are made so like the unbelieving and ungodly world; and the Garden of Christ is ⟨p. 157⟩