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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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Arg. 3. If another Condition were not of Necessity to the Aged, beside the Condition that was necessary to them in Infancy, then Turks, Jews, and Heathens, should have right to Church-membership, and Privileges of the Adult: But the Consequent is notoriously false: therefore so is the Antecedent.
Arg. 3. If another Condition were not of Necessity to the Aged, beside the Condition that was necessary to them in Infancy, then Turks, Jews, and Heathens, should have right to Church-membership, and Priviledges of the Adult: But the Consequent is notoriously false: therefore so is the Antecedent.
The Reason of the Consequent is evident. Because a man that hath believing Parents, may turn Turk (as is known in thousands of Janissaries) or Jew, or Pagan: and therefore ⟨p. 18⟩if it were enough, that he was the Child of a Believer, his Title to Church Privileges would still continue. And so among professed Christians, the Child of a Believer may turn Heretic, or notoriously profane and scandalous, and yet have Title to Church Privileges, if his first Title still hold, and a personal Faith be not a necessary Condition of his Right. Add to these the many Arguments tending to confirm the point in hand, which I have laid down on another occasion in my Disputations of Right to Sacraments. But I think I need not spend more words to persuade any Christians, that our Parents Faith will not serve to give us Title to the Church Privileges of the Adult, but we lose our Right even to Church-membership it self, if when we come to Age, we add not a personal Faith (or profession at least) of our own.
The Reason of the Consequent is evident. Because a man that hath believing Parents, may turn Turk (as is known in thousands of Janizaries) or Jew, or Pagan: and therefore ⟨p. 18⟩if it were enough, that he was the Child of a Believer, his Title to Church Priviledges would still continue. And so among professed Christians, the Child of a Believer may turn Heretick, or notoriously prophane and scandalous, and yet have Title to Church Priviledges, if his first Title still hold, and a personal Faith be not a necessary Condition of his Right. Adde to these the many Arguments tending to confirm the point in hand, which I have laid down on another occasion in my Dsputations of Right to Sacraments. But I think I need not spend more words to perswade any Christians, that our Parents Faith will not serve to give us Title to the Church Priviledges of the Adult, but we lose our Right even to Church-membership it self, if when we come to Age, we adde not a personal Faith (or profession at least) of our own.