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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.
Quest. 32. Doth Baptism as such enter the Baptized into the Universal Church, or into a particular Church, or both? And is Baptism the Particular-Church Covenant as such?
Answ. 1. Baptism as such doth enter us into the Universal Church, and into it alone; and is no particular Church-Covenant, but the solemnizing of the great Christian Covenant of Grace, between God and a believer and his seed.
Answ. 1. BAptism as such doth enter us into the Universal Church, and into it alone; and is no particular Church-Covenant, but the solemnizing of the great Christian Covenant of Grace, between God and a believer and his seed.
For, 1. There is not essentially any mention of a particular Church in it.
2. A man may be baptized by a general unfixed Minister, who is not the Pastor of any particular ⟨p. 806⟩Church: And he may be baptized in solitude, where there is no particular Church. The Eunuch1