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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.
Answ. The Papists have made another thing of it: They use it to Infants, and so will not we: They make a proper Sacrament of it: They make the visible signs to be Anointing and Crossing, in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost; and they make Imposition of hands no part of it, but cast it off, (though in words they own it) They adjoin a box of the ear, to signify, the opposition that Christs Soldiers must expect:1 They make it to imprint I know not ⟨p. 268⟩what indelible Character, and to give grace ex opere operato: They make it to be an entering of us into Christs militia abusing Baptism, as being but an entering us into his Family, and not his warfare: All this is nothing to that, which I am pleading for, and which the protestant writers do wish for.
Answ. The Papists have made another thing of it: They use it to Infants, and so will not we: They make a proper Sacrament of it: They make the visible signes to be Anointing and Crossing, in the name of the Father, Sonne and Holy Ghost; and they make Imposition of hands no part of it, but cast it off, (though in words they own it) They adjoyn a boxe of the eare, to signifie, the opposition that Christs Souldiers must expect:1 They make it to imprint I know not ⟨p. 268⟩what indelible Caracter, and to give grace ex opere operato: They make it to be an entering of us into Christs militia abusing Baptism, as being but an entering us into his Family, and not his warfare: All this is nothing to that, which I am pleading for, and which the protestant writers do wish for.
- 1Vid. Chamier. l. 4. de Sacra. cap. 10, & 11.