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How should we meet the Anabaptist? By laying hold of"the positive truth, that there must be a conscious and voluntary recognition of our Church-membership, besides the act of sacramental fellowship," and showing him that "this is as much our tenet as his, that our service of Commnation is a distinct acknowledgement of it." But also by showing him that "it is only the negative part of his creed,-the denial that there is another act ofa dmission of admission into Christ's body, an act setting forth that the constitution of the Church of Christ is an established constitution, not dependent on human faith, but fixed and certain in Christ, though no man should enter into it" (112 f.).