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A Christian Directory
A Christian directory, or, A sum of practical theology and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortify every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.A Christian directory, or, A summ of practical theologie and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortifie every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1673
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
§. 9. Direct. 4. Answ. The Ancients by Baptism meant the Internal and External acts conjunct: the1 souls delivering up it self to God in the Covenant, and sealing it by Baptism: And so it includeth Conversion, and true Repentance, and faith: And all that are thus baptized are pardoned, justified and holy: But they that have only Sacramental Regeneration, or the external Ordinance, are not for2 that in a state of life: For Christ expressly saith, that except you are born of the Spirit as well as Water, you cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, John 3. 5, 6. And Peter told Simon Magus after he was baptized, that he was yet in the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity, Acts 8. 13. It is not the putting away the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience, 1 Pet. 3. 21. Christ cleanseth his Church by the washing of water by the word, Eph. 5. 26. But if you had been cleansed in Baptism, if at present you are unclean, and unholy, can you be saved so?
§. 9. Direct. 4. Answ. The Ancients by Baptism meant the Internal and External acts conjunct: the1 souls delivering up it self to God in the Covenant, and sealing it by Baptism: And so it includeth Conversion, and true Repentance, and faith: And all that are thus baptized are pardoned, justified and holy: But they that have only Sacramental Regeneration, or the external Ordinance, are not for2 that in a state of life: For Christ expresly saith, that except you are born of the Spirit as well as Water, you cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, John 3. 5, 6. And Peter told Simon Magus after he was baptized, that he was yet in the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity,