[io6] ha6eant idquad inCatechifo ipfrton tro ¡ne pro. mifur : a4odfa rattan non habeanr, ab Ecclefæ jurifdiEtione liberos manere;in r` To. 2, C. I f1, z. If they did then Itand LC to what their fureties promifed for them. If cc not they thould be difcarded. Moft neceffary " and of unimaginable benefit! Such a fcrutiny "would (hake offthoufands of rotten hypocrites, CC and purge the Church of many fuch Infidel " believers or profeffours, upon . whofe dirty ° faces a little holy water was fprinkled when " they knew not what it was ; but they no more " mind the true fan tification appertaining than the Turks or Saracens (who rife up in " judgement againft their wafhed falthinefs, ) or than thofeof whom St. Peter [ It is hapned " to them according to the true proverb : The " dog to his vomir, and the wa(hed fwine to " wallow in the mire.] Such difcipline ofawake- " njed Reafon is that the world groans for ; "that men would become Clirif fans. O that " the truth of faith, and power of true ChrilIian "belief might be ken in thofe that knowingly put the neck in Chrifls yoak.] Só far he. See altoDr. PatrickofBa,ptifm. And of our felves Mr. Hamner' and Baxter have written Treatifes only-on this fub)eft, to mew that fuch true Confirmation would be the moft excellent means to heal molf of our enormities and divifions. And fhall filch jefuirs as Vafuez;, fuch mode- Tators as Er j aces, and Proteltant Conforuni'fls; and Nonconforrnìfls, all thus fpeak for it,andyet no hope ? No wonder if a word or ceremony that we dif Y,ree in, can make ourlwound fo fad as we have felt when that which we in words agree
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