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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.
Nor is this either inconsistent with, or any way unsuitable to an Absolute Decree: For as a Threatening, so the Conditionality of a Promise, are Instruments admirably suited to the accomplishment of an Absolute Purpose or Decree. He that is fully Resolved to save us, or to give us the Privileges of his Church, will deal with us as men, in bringing us to the possession of the intended benefits; and therefore will by Threats and Conditional ⟨p. 15⟩promises excite us to a careful performance of the Condition: and that Grace which is resolved to effect the very Condition in us, is also resolved to make a Conditional Promise, yea and a Threatening the Instrument of effecting it.
Nor is this either inconsistent with, or any way unsuitable to an Absolute Decree: For as a Threatning, so the Conditionality of a Promise, are Instruments admirably suited to the accomplishment of an Absolute Purpose or Decree. He that is fully Resolved to save us, or to give us the Priviledges of his Church, will deal with us as men, in bringing us to the possession of the intended benefits; and therefore will by Threats and Conditional ⟨p. 15⟩promises excite us to a careful performance of the Condition: and that Grace which is resolved to effect the very Condition in us, is also resolved to make a Conditional Promise, yea and a Threatening the Instrument of effecting it.
3. Note, that the great Question, whether all the Infants of true Believers are certainly Justified, or whether some of them have but lower Privileges, is not here to be determined, but, in a fitter place: And therefore I determine not what Privileges they are that will cease, if our Infant Title cease. But that according to the tenor of the Promise, the Continuance of them, with the Addition of the Privileges proper to the Adult, are all laid upon a New Condition.
3. Note, that the great Question, whether all the Infants of true Believers are certainly Justified, or whether some of them have but lower Priviledges, is not here to be determined, but, in a fitter place: And therefore I determine not what Priviledges they are that will cease, if our Infant Title cease. But that according to the tenour of the Promise, the Continuance of them, with the Addition of the Priviledges proper to the Adult, are all laid upon a New Condition.