A Christian Directory

Name: A Christian Directory
Author: Richard Baxter

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.

Richard Baxter 1615–1691London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1673

[35], 929, [5], 214 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. · 1.2M words · Wing B1219 · ESTC R21847

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Part 3 › Question 32: Quest. 32. Doth Baptism as such enter the Baptized into the Universal Church, or into a…

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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 Act. 8. was not baptized into any particular Church.

1Mat. 28, 19, 20.

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3. Baptism doth but make us Christians: But a man may be a Christian who is no member of any particular Church.

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4. Otherwise Baptism should oblige us necessarily to a man, and be a Covenant between the Baptized and the Pastor and Church into which he is baptized: But it is only our Covenant with Christ.

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5. We may frequently change our particular Church relation; without being baptized again. But we never change our relation to the Church which we are baptized into, unless by Apostasy.

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A Christian Directory

Quest. 33. Whether Infants should be Baptized?

Quest. 34. Whether an unbaptized person who yet maketh a public profession of Christianity, be a member of the Visible Church? And so of the Infants of Believers unbaptized.

Quest. 34. Whether an unbaptized person who yet maketh a publick profession of Christianity, be a member of the Visible Church? And so of the Infants of Believers unbaptized.

Quest. 35. Is it certain by the Word of God that all Infants Baptized, and dying before actual sin are undoubtedly saved? Or what Infants may we say so of?

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

Quest. 33. Whether Infants should be Baptized?

Quest. 34. Whether an unbaptized person who yet maketh a public profession of Christianity, be a member of the Visible Church? And so of the Infants of Believers unbaptized.

Quest. 34. Whether an unbaptized person who yet maketh a publick profession of Christianity, be a member of the Visible Church? And so of the Infants of Believers unbaptized.

Quest. 35. Is it certain by the Word of God that all Infants Baptized, and dying before actual sin are undoubtedly saved? Or what Infants may we say so of?

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