A76157:99
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.
Gods order is (to the Adult) first to send Preachers to proclaim the Gospel; and when by that men are brought so far, as to Profess or manifest that their cies are opened, and that they are turned from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, then must they be Baptized, for the Remission of their sins, and to receive the Inheritance among the Sanctified by Faith in Christ, Acts 26. 17. 18.
Gods order is (to the Adult) first to send Preachers to proclaim the Gospel; and when by that men are brought so farre, as to Profess or manifest that their cies are opened, and that they are turned from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, then must they be Baptized, for the Remission of their sinnes, and to receive the Inheritance among the Sanctified by Faith in Christ, Acts 26. 17. 18.
As their sins are not forgiven them till they are Converted, Mark 4. 12. So they must not be Baptised for the forgiveness of sins, till they Profess themselves Converted: Seeing to the Church non esse, & non apparere is all one. Repentance towards God, and Faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ, is ⟨p. 31⟩the sum of that Preaching that maketh Disciples, Acts 20. 21. And therefore both these must by Profession seem to be received, before any at age are Baptized.
As their sinnes are not forgiven them till they are Converted, Mark 4. 12. So they must not be Baptised for the forgiveness of sinnes, till they Profess themselves Converted: Seeing to the Church non esse, & non apparere is all one. Repentance towards God, and Faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ, is