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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…

Name: Confirmation and restoration the necessary means of reformation, and reconciliation; for the healing of…
Author: Richard Baxter

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.

Richard Baxter 1615–1691London: printed by A.M. for Nevil Simmons book-seller, 1658

[30], 316, [68] p. · 82k words · Wing B1232 · ESTC R209487

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CONFIRMATION AND RESTORATION The necessary means of REFORMATION An… › Proposition 4: Prop. 4. The Title-Condition of Infant Church-membership and Privileges, is not the sa…CONFIRMATION AND RESTAURATION The necessary means of REFORMATION An… › Proposition 4: Prop. 4. The Title-Condition of Infant Church-membership and Priviledges, is not the sa…

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2. And we are agreed I hope, that this Promise, or Grant from God is Conditional, For if Church-membership and Privileges he Absolutely Given, then it is to All, or but to Some: Not to All; for then the Church, and the world are all one; and then it is not Ecclesia, caetus evocatus; and then Heathens and Infidels have right; which are things that no Christian, I think will grant: If it be but Some that have Title, then there must be some Note to know them by: or else the some will be equal to All or to None. And if they be Marked out, then it must be by Name or by Description: Not by Name; for we find the contrary. Scripture doth not Name all that have Title to Church Privileges. If it be by Description, it is either by mere Physical, or by Moral Qualifications that they are described: The former, none doth imagine, that I hear of. If they are Moral Qualifications, then either ⟨p. 14⟩they are such as are prerequisite to our Right and Privileges, or not: That they are prerequisite all must confess that read the Promise, and all do confess that they are prerequisite to all the following Privileges: And if Prerequisite, then either as Means or no Means. The later none can affirm, without going against so much light, as ordinary Christians have still ready at hand to confute them with: And if they are required as Means, then either as Causes or Conditions: And I think you will sooner yield them to be Conditions then Causes, though either Concession sufficeth to the end that is before us.

2. And we are agreed I hope, that this Promise, or Grant from God is Conditional, For if Church-membership and Priviledges he Absolutly Given, then it is to All, or but to Some: Not to All; for then the Church, and the world are all one; and then it is not Ecclesia, caetus evocatus; and then Heathens and Infidels have right; which are things that no Christian, I think will grant: If it be but Some that have Title, then there must be some Note to know them by: or else the some will be equal to All or to None. And if they be Marked out, then it must be by Name or by Description: Not by Name; for we find the contrary. Scripture doth not Name all that have Title to Church Priviledges. If it be by Description, it is either by meer Physical, or by Moral Qualifications that they are described: The former, none doth imagine, that I hear of. If they are Moral Qualifications, then either ⟨p. 14⟩

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Author

Richard Baxter 1615–1691

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London

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A.M.

Bookseller

Nevil Simmons book-seller

Year

1658

Size

[30], 316, [68] p.

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82,203

Catalogue

Wing B1232 · ESTC R209487

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…

Prop. 5. As a Personal Faith is the Condition before God of Title to the Privileges of the Adult; so the Profession of this Faith, is the Condition of his Right before the Church; and without this Profession, he is not to be taken as an Adult member, nor admitted to the Privileges of such.

Prop. 5. As a Personal Faith is the Condition before God of Title to the Priviledges of the Adult; so the Profession of this Faith, is the Condition of his Right before the Church; and without this Profession, he is not to be taken as an Adult member, nor admitted to the Priviledges of such.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

Prop. 5. As a Personal Faith is the Condition before God of Title to the Privileges of the Adult; so the Profession of this Faith, is the Condition of his Right before the Church; and without this Profession, he is not to be taken as an Adult member, nor admitted to the Privileges of such.

Prop. 5. As a Personal Faith is the Condition before God of Title to the Priviledges of the Adult; so the Profession of this Faith, is the Condition of his Right before the Church; and without this Profession, he is not to be taken as an Adult member, nor admitted to the Priviledges of such.

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