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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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8. If the opposed Doctrine should hold good, then all the world hath right to Church-Communion▪ (or M•llions of Infidels, at least) But the consequent is false: therefore so is the Antecedent. The reason of the Consequence is plain; because Noah was a Churchmember, and all the world came out of his Loins: And the men of Thracia, Bithynia, and most of Asia, where Mahomet is worshipped, may say, Our Ancestors were Christians: Therefore the Birth-privileges still going down from generation to generation even to the Thousandth generation, it must follow, that the present generation of Mahometans and other Infidels, are Churchmember• still: For they lost not their natural Relation to their Parents.
8. If the opposed Doctrine should hold good, then all the world hath right to Church-Communion▪ (or M•llions of Infidels, at least) But the consequent is false: therefore so is the Antecedent. The reason of the Consequence is plain; because Noah was a Churchmember, and all the world came out of his Loynes: And the men of Thracia, Bithynia, and most of Asia, where Mahomet is worshipped, may say, Our Ancestors were Christians: Therefore the Birth-priviledges still going down from generation to generation even to the Thousandth generation, it must follow, that the present generation of Mahometans and other Infidels, are Churchmember• still: For they lost not their naturall Relation to their Parents.
9. It will not prove a Society of Adult persons to be a Christian Church, if they have no more but their Infant-Condition: therefore it will not prove a single person to ⟨image 183⟩be a Member of the Church. That which is necessary to make a society, a Christian society, is necessary to make a person, a Christian person. But I hope none will deny, but that some kind of Profession is necessary to make, or prove a company of men, to be a Christian Church: therefore some profession is necessary to make, or prove a man, to be a Church-member.