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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.
Any man in reason may foresee, that if we be openly agreed, and it be publicly enacted, or declared, that none be taken into the number of Adult Christians, nor admitted to their Privileges, till they have made an Approved Profession of Christianity, and so be received by Jesus Christ himself, acting by his Ministers, it will set all that care for the Name, or hopes or Privileges of Christians, to learn, and be, and do, that which they know will be so required of them. Whereas, as things go now in most places, they may bring their Children to Baptism, without understanding what Baptism is; and those Children may slide into the state of the Adult-Christians, and possess the Name, and ⟨p. 197⟩place, and outward Communion, and other honours and Privileges of such, without knowing whether Christ were a man or a woman, or who he is, or what business he came about into the world: And when no outward Necessity is laid upon them by the Church, to know more, or to seem better, no wonder if so many Heathens do sit among Christians, and if the multitude look not much after knowledge or Godliness.
Any man in reason may foresee, that if we be openly agreed, and it be publikely enacted, or declared, that none be taken into the number of Adult Christians, nor admitted to their Priviledges, till they have made an Approved Profession of Christianity, and so be received by Jesus Christ himself, acting by his Ministers, it will set all that care for the Name, or hopes or Privilidges of Christians, to learn, and be, and do, that which they know will be so required of them. Whereas, as things go now in most places, they may bring their Children to Baptism, without understanding what Baptism is; and those Children may slide into the state of the Adult-Christians, and possess the Name, and ⟨p. 197⟩place, and outward Communion, and other honours and Priviledges of such, without knowing whether Christ were a man or a woman, or who he is, or what business he came about into the world: And when no outward Necessity is laid upon them by the Church, to know more, or to seem better, no wonder if so many Heathens do sit among Christians, and if the multitude looke not much after knowledg or Godliness.