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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
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4. Note also, that when I call it another or different Condition, I mean not that it is different in the Nature of the Act, but in the Agent or Subject. It is the same kind of Faith which at first is required in the Parent, for the Child's behoof, and that afterward is required in our selves. But the Condition of the Infants Title is but this, that he be the Child of a Believer. Dedicated to God: But the Condition of the Title of persons at Age is, that they be themselves Believers, that have Dedicated themselves to God. The ⟨p. 16⟩Faith of the Parent, is the Condition of Infant Title; and the Faith of the person himself, is the Condition of the Title of one at Age.
4. Note also, that when I call it another or different Condition, I mean not that it is different in the Nature of the Act, but in the Agent or Subject. It is the same kind of Faith which at first is required in the Parent, for the Childs behoof, and that afterward is required in our selves. But the Condition of the Infants Title is but this, that he be the Child of a Believer. Dedicated to God: But the Condition of the Title of persons at Age is, that they be themselves Believers, that have Dedicated themselves to God. The ⟨p. 16⟩Faith of the Parent, is the Condition of Infant Title; and the Faith of the person himself, is the Condition of the Title of one at Age.
That their own Faith is not the Condition of an Infants Title, I think I need not prove: For 1. They are uncapable of Believing without a Miracle: 2. If they were not (as some Lutherans fondly think). yet it's certain that we are uncapable of discerning by such a sign. I think no Minister that I know will judge what Infants do themselves believe, that he may baptise them. 3. And I think no man that looks on the Command, or Promise, and the Person of an Infant, will judge that he is either Commanded then to believe, or that his Believing is made the Condition of his Infant Title.