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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.
Certain I am, that the ancient Doctors with one consent, did look on the baptized generally as pardoned, justified, and adopted; and therefore thought that Visible Church-membership, did imply a credibility (at least) of a state of saving grace. Saith Cyprian, Epist. 76. Magn. In Baptismo unicuique peccata sua remittuntur. And upon this supposition run the Arguments of the council of Carthage, and Firmilian, Epist. ibid.
Certain I am, that the ancient Doctours with one consent, did look on the baptized generally as pardoned, justified, and adopted; and therefore thought that Visible Church-membership, did imply a credibility (at least) of a state of saving grace. Saith Cyprian, Epist. 76. Magn. In Baptismo unicuique peccata sua remittuntur. And upon this supposition run the Arguments of the councell of Carthage, and Firmilian, Epist. ibid.
Saith Augustine, De Catechizandis rudibus, cap. 26. His dictis interrogandus est, an haec credat, atque observare desideret? Quod cum responderit, solemniter utique signandus est, & ecclesiae more tractandus. Obedience it self was promised, and a consent to it professed before Baptism then, and ever since Christian Baptism was known.
Idem Epistol. 119. Ad Januar. cap. 2. Secundum hanc fidem & spem & dilectionem, quâ caepimus esse sub gratia, jam commortui sumus cum Christo, & consepulti per baptismum in morte, &c. Baptism ⟨image 198⟩then supposeth credibly Faith, Hope and Love.