A76157:341
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.
Object. Your very keeping them from the Communion of the Church, and not Approving or Confirming them, would ⟨p. 189⟩as much exasperate them.
Answ. It's no such matter. Much it may, but not near so much, as I certainly know by experience: Those not Admitted hear with Hope; but to the rejected I speak as almost hopeless, except such as were fit to live under Discipline, on whom it may have its due effect.
Answ. It's no such matter. Much it may, but not neare so much, as I certainly know by experience: Those not Admitted heare with Hope; but to the rejected I speak as almost hopeless, except such as were fit to live under Discipline, on whom it may have its due effect.
9. And by this admitting all men without trial and Confirmation, to come unobservedly into the state of Adult-Christians, we breed and feed continual heart burnings against the Ministers of Christ; while we are necessitated to do our work upon such unprepared Souls. And how much the hatred and contempt of Ministers doth conduce to the destruction of the people, Satan is not ignorant, that is the diligent promoter of it.
9. And by this admitting all men without tryal and Confirmation, to come unobservedly into the state of Adult-Christians, we breed and feed continual heart burnings against the Ministers of Christ; while we are necessitated to do our work upon such unprepared Souls. And how much the hatred and contempt of Ministers doth conduce to the destruction of the people, Satan is not ignorant, that is the diligent promoter of it.