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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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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.
But that a Personal Believing is the Condition of the Title of them at Age, is as far past doubt: and it's proved thus.
But that a Personal Believing is the Condition of the Title of them at Age, is as farre past doubt: and it's proved thus.
Arg. 1. The Promise it self doth expressly require a Faith of our own, of all the Adult that will have part in the Privileges: therefore it is a Faith of our Own that is the Condition of our Title, Mark 16 16. He that Believeth and is Baptized shall be saved, and he that Believeth not shall be damned, Act. 8. 36, 37. And the Eunuch said, See here is water, ⟨p. 17⟩what doth hinder me to be baptized? And Philip said, If thou believest with all thy heart, thou mayest, Act. 2. 38, 41. Repent and be baptized every one of you in the Name of Jesus Christ for the Remission of sins, &c.Then they that gladly received his word were baptized,