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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.
Idem Epist. 23. Having showed why Parents Faith profiteth Infants, and yet their after-sins hurt them not, saithCum autem homo sapere caeperit, non illud Sacramentum repetit, sed intelligit: ejusque veritati consonâ etiam voluntate coaptabitur. Hoc quamdiu non potest (N. B.) valebit Sacramentum ad ejus tutelam adversus contrarias potestates: & tantum valebit, ut si ante rationis usum ex hac vita emigraverit, per ipsum Sacramentum Ecclesiae charitate ab illa condemnatione, quae per unum hominem intravit in mundum, Christiano adjutorio liberetur. Hoc qui non credit, & fieri non posse arbitratur, profecto infidelis est, etsi habeat fidei Sacramentum, longeque melior est ille parvulus, qui etiamsi fidem nondum habeat in cogitatione, non ei tamen obicem contrariae cogitationis opponit, undè Sacramentum ejus salubriter percipit.
Idem Epist. 23. Having shewed why Parents Faith profiteth Infants, and yet their after-sins hurt them not, saithCum autem homo sapere caeperit, non illud Sacramentum repetit, sed intelligit: ejusque veritati consonâ etiam voluntate coaptabitur. Hoc quamdiu non potest (N. B.) valebit Sacramentum ad ejus tutelam adversus contrarias potestates: & tantum valebit, utsi ante rationis usum ex hac vita emigraverit, per ipsum Sacramentum Ecclesiae charitate ab illa condemnatione, quae per unum hominem intravit in mundum, Christiano adjutorio liberetur. Hoc qui non credit, & fieri non posse arbitratur, profecto infidelis est, etsi habeat fidei Sacramentum, longeque melior est ille parvulus, qui etiamsi fidem nondum habeat in cogitatione, non ei tamen obicem contrariae cogitationis opponit, undè Sacramentum ejus salubriter percipit.
And saith the Synod of Dort. Artic. 1. 8. 17. Quandoquidem de voluntate Dei ex verbo ipsius nobis est judicandum, quod testatur liberos fidelium, esse sanctos, non quidem natura, sed benefici• ⟨image 199⟩faederis gratuiti, in quo illi cum parentibus comprehenduntur, pij parentes de electione & salute suorum liberorum, quos Deus in Infantia ex hac vita evocat, dubitare non debe•t. And if there be such certainty of the Election and Salvation of all such Infants of the godly, as ought to exclude all doubting, surely the visible Church-state of the Adult also, hath some respect to saving grace, so far as that its credible fide humanâ that such have saving Faith.