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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.
Yea we expect but that open Profession before the Congregation, which the forecited Rubric of Confirmation requireth: no nor alway so much as that. So that I may well suppose, that no Godly, moderate man of the Erastian way, can dissent from us in this point of Confirmation: And a Consent in this, will be next to a Consent in all, between us and them.
Yea we expect but that open Profession before the Congregation, which the forecited Rubricke of Confirmation requireth: no nor alway so much as that. So that I may well suppose, that no Godly, moderate man of the Erastian way, can dissent from us in this point of Confirmation: And a Consent in this, will be next to a Consent in all, between us and them.
5. And for the Anabaptists themselves, ⟨p. 232⟩though we expect not their Consent, yet we may well expect their Moderation, and nonopposition, and that as we thus draw as near them, as possibly (in our present judgment) we can, so they would lay by all bitterness and reproach, and divisive carriage, and come as near us as they can. And as now with the more moderate of them, our difference appeareth less then many of them imagined, so it may appear, that the distance in affection and Communion shall be no greater then there is cause. The odium of Division, and unpeaceableness, hath so long lain upon their party, that methinks they should be willing to have it taken off. And there is no way to take it off, but their visible amendment: by becoming Lovers and Promoters of Union, Communion, and Peace among the Churches of Christ. Men will never take your opinion to be of God, while general experience shall show them, that it will not stand with that Love, Union, and Communion of the Saints, but engageth almost all that receive it, in Divisions, Opposition, and Reproach, of the Servants of Christ and his Churches. Though you think your own Opinion right, let it not so far dispossess you of Charity, and Reason, as to unchurch all the Churches of Christ, that ⟨p. 233⟩