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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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Object. If wickedness cut off a man, excommunication cannot do it, because it is done already.
Answ. If wickedness being not Notorious do only cut him off meritoriously and de jure only he be excommunicate, then Actual excommunication must do that which was not actually done, but ought to be done. But if by the Notoriety of the crime he be cut off ipso jure, the Sentence yet may do the same thing, by adding a Second Obligation to the first. A Traitor in actual prosecution of the Sovereign, seeking his life, is condemned ipso jure, and any Subject may kill him without sentence: and yet he may be proclaimed or sentenced a Traitor for all that.
Answ. If wickedness being not Notorious do only cut him off meritoriously and de jure only he be excommunicate, then Actual excommunication must do that which was not actually done, but ought to be done. But if by the Notoriety of the crime he be cut off ipso jure, the Sentence yet may do the same thing, by adding a Second Obligation to the first. A Traitour in actual prosecution of the Soveraigne, seeking his life, is condemned ipso jure, and any Subject may kill him without sentence: and yet he may be proclaimed or sentenced a Traitour for all that.
Object. It is proved by some Writers, that such persons as have neither grace indeed nor in show, may yet have both a real and visible Interest in the Covenant and Church: and the Arguments for this are yet unanswered: therefore persons baptized in Infancy are in the Church and Covenant at age, though they never by Profession made so much as a show of grace.
Object. It is proved by some Writers, that such persons as have neither grace indeed nor in shew, may yet have both a real and visible Interest in the Covenant and Church: and the Arguments for this are yet unanswered: therefore persons baptized in Infancy are in the Church and Covenant at age, though they never by Profession made so much as a shew of grace.