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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
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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.
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.
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 Apostasie.
2. Yet the same person at the same time that he is baptized may be entered into the universal Church, and into a particular; And ordinarily it ought to be so where it can be had.
2. Yet the same person at the same time that he is baptized may be entred into the universal Church, and into a particular; And ordinarily it ought to be so where it can be had.
3. And the Covenant which we make in baptism with Christ, doth oblige us to obey him, and consequently to use his instituted means, and so to hear his Ministers, and hold due Communion with his Churches.