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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.
Prop. 5. As a Personal Faith is the Condition before God of Title to the Privileges of the Adult; so the Profession of this Faith, is the Condition of his Right before the Church; and without this Profession, he is not to be taken as an Adult member, nor admitted to the Privileges of such.
Prop. 5. As a Personal Faith is the Condition before God of Title to the Priviledges of the Adult; so the Profession of this Faith, is the Condition of his Right before the Church; and without this Profession, he is not to be taken as an Adult member, nor admitted to the Priviledges of such.
This Proposition also, as the Sun, revealeth its self by its own light, and therefore commandeth me to say but little for the Confirmation of it.
THis Proposition also, as the Sunne, revealeth its self by its own light, and therefore commandeth me to say but little for the Confirmation of it.
Arg. 1. The Church cannot judge of things unknown: Non entium, & non apparentium eadem est ratio: Not to appear, and ⟨p. 21⟩not to be, is all one as to the judgment of the Church. We are not searchers of the heart; and therefore we must judge by the discoveries of the heart, by outward signs.
Arg. 1. The Church cannot judge of things unknown: Non entium, & non apparentium eadem est ratio: Not to appear, and ⟨p. 21⟩not to be, is all one as to the judgment of the Church. We are not searchers of the heart; and therefore we must judge by the discoveries of the heart, by outward signes.