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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.
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.
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 farre as that its crediblefide humanâ that such have saving Faith.
And saith Mr Fullwood, Append. p. 6. I conceive that such an ones personal profession in his general ow•ing the true Faith, and usual attending Gods public worship, doth superadd a kind of new right, and mingle it with such a persons former right, had by his Birth privilege. And if the [new Right] be not a necessary Right, I think it will prove no right.