A76157:443
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.
Answ. I meddle not with that Question, but leave every man to his own Judgment. And if I did my self keep off such children, I think it would prove but very few. For 1. I would refuse none of the Parents that had aliquid Christi, that made but a Credible Profession of Christianity. 2. I am persuaded that this Practise would bring almost all the people to a tolerable Profession, when they know it is expected, and what lieth on it. 3. Upon experience now I find, that ⟨p. 256⟩both the Parents are seldom so bad as to be uncapable of offering their child to God, (in the Judgment of the Church) Nay commonly here the more one of the persons is in scandalous sin, the more the other hates it: And they are seldom both grossly ignorant. And those that were delayed on these terms, would receive no wrong by it. Gods way is the best. The Children of unbelievers must not be inchurched in ways of our devising, nor respected before the honour of Christ, and the common good of the Church of God. But of this I say again, I interpose not my Judgment, but leave each man to his own.
Answ. I medle not with that Question, but leave every man to his own Judgment. And if I did my self keep off such children, I think it would prove but very few. For 1. I would refuse none of the Parents that had aliquid Christi, that made but a Credible Profession of Christianity. 2. I am perswaded that this Practise would bring almost all the people to a tollerable Profession, when they know it is expected, and what lieth on it. 3. Upon experience now I find, that ⟨p. 256⟩both the Parents are seldom so bad as to be uncapable of offering their child to God, (in the Judgment of the Church) Nay commonly here the more one of the persons is in scandalous sinne, the more the other hates it: And they are seldom both grosly ignorant. And those that were delayed on these terms, would receive no wrong by it. Gods way is the best. The Children of unbelievers must not be inchurched in waies of our devising, nor respected before the honour of Christ, and the common good of the Church of God. But of this I say againe, I interpose not my Judgment, but leave each man to his own.