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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
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20. If all this will not satisfy you, for Peace sake, we will forbear Imposition of hands, which you suppose to be the Bishops prerogative; and we will be content ⟨p. 265⟩to do no more, then Presbyters always did in Baptizing the Adult; even to judge and Approve of the Capacity of those whom they Baptized: and so will we only judge of the Profession and Capacity of those that we take charge of, and own as Adult-Christians, and must administer the Lords Supper to: And this common reason cannot deny us.
20. If all this will not satisfie you, for Peace sake, we will forbeare Imposition of hands, which you suppose to be the Bishops proragative; and we will be content ⟨p. 265⟩to do no more, then Presbyters alwaies did in Baptizing the Adult; even to judge and Approve of the Capacity of those whom they Baptized: and so will we only judge of the Profession and Capacity of those that we take charge of, and own as Adult-Christians, and must administer the Lords Supper to: And this common reason cannot deny us.
Object. 16. But if Presbyters may do it, yet so cannot you; For you are no Presbyters, as wanting Episcopal Ordination: or else schismatical, as having cast them off to whom you were sworn.
Answ. 1. In my second sheet for the Ministry, and my Christian Concord, I have answered already: And for fuller answer, I refer you to the London Ministers Vindication, to Mr. Mason's Vindication of the Ordination of the Protestant Churches, &c. If Bishop Bancroft himself, as Dr. Bernard mentions, in Bishop Usher's Judgment, and the rest of the Prelates, were against the reordaining the Scots Ministers, me thinks, few should be so much more intemperate, then that intemperate Prelate, as to judge their Ordination Null. And if the Papists in the Canon Law, do judge that in some cases an excommunicate mans Ordination is valid, me thinks Protestants should