A76157:586
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. 1. None but Infants were admitted without consent: nor they without the consent of their Parents, natural or civill, that had the power of disposing of them. 2. Those that were admitted upon others consent, were not continued at age without their own. 3. The Covenant, Deut. 29. ⟨image 190⟩11, 12, 15. Was no mutual Covenant to the absent or unborn there mentioned: but only a Covenant offered to the Nation, and conditionally made on Gods part as a promise, to them and their posterity, even to many generations: But those unborn generations, were not in Covenant on their parts, as promisers in the stipulation.
Answ. 1. None but Infants were admitted without consent: nor they without the consent of their Parents, naturall or civill, that had the power of disposing of them. 2. Those that were admitted upon others consent, were not continued at age without their own. 3. The Covenant, Deut. 29. ⟨image 190⟩11, 12, 15. Was no mutuall Covenant to the absent or unborn there mentioned: but only a Covenant offered to the Nation, and conditionally made on Gods part as a promise, to them and their posterity, even to many generations: But those unborn generations, were not in Covenant on their parts, as promisers in the stipulation.
Object. Wickedness it self doth not put a man out of the Visible Church. For a man is said to be cut off, but either de jure, or de facto;Meritoriously, or Effectually: the former is improperly called cutting off, being but the Desert of it: therefore if those baptized in Infancy, prove afterward wicked, they are not thereby cut off.