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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.
And as for the person Confirming, I shall speak to that anon.
2.1 I will next speak of the Papists, because in their words I shall have opportunity to recite some more of our Own, even those of the Canons Convocat. London, An. 1603. c. 60. I will pass by Frans. de S. Clara,and such Reconcilers, lest you say, that is not the common Judgment of the Papists: And at this time it may suffice to instance in one, that most petulant, insolent Jesuit, Hen. Fitz Simon, in his Britanomach. lib. 3. cap. 4. pag. 289, 290, 291. Where he reciteth the words of our Canon, that seeing it was a solemn, ancient, laudable custom in the Church of God, observed even from the days of the Apostles, that all Bishops laying hands on ⟨p. 211⟩those that were Baptized in Infancy, and are instructed in the Catechism of the Christian Religion, should Pray over them, and bless them, which we commonly call Confirmation,—we will and ordain that every Bishop, or his suffragan, do in their proper person, diligently observe this right and custom, in their ordinary visitation. To which saith the Jesuit,What do I hear?—All this is very Orthodox, very Catholic, if uttered in good sadness—And citing the Rubric beforementioned, he mentioneth the Conference at Hampton Court, pag. 10, 11, 32, 33. That the Doctrine of Confirmation was part of the Apostles Catechism, rashly rejected by some Churches, but in Calvins Judgment to be taken up again, and is ungrateful to the Puritans only, because they may not themselves administer it. And pag. 64. he would persuade us, that most certainly the Bishops borrowed this passage from the Rhemists Test. Annot. in Heb. 6. 2. against the Puritans. More he adds from Resp. Oxon. ad Libel. supplic. Covell, &c. and concludes, All this the Formalists (as he constantly calls that party) do freely grant us, then which the Catholics themselves, as to the sound of the words, seem scarce able to think, or speak any thing more honourable of Confirmation.