A26892:6189
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.
Part 3 › Question 33: Quest. 33. Whether Infants should be Baptized?
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. 33. Whether Infants should be Baptized?
I have answered long ago in a Treatise on that Subject.
I have answered long agoe in a Treatise on that Subject.
Also What Infants should be Baptized? And who have Right to Sacraments? And whether Hypocrites are univocally or equivocally Christians and Church-members, I have resolved in my Disput. of Right to Sacraments.
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.
Answ. 1. Such persons have a certain Imperfect irregular kind of profession, and so of Membership; Their Visibility or Visible Christianity is not such as Christ hath appointed. As those that are Married, but not by Legal Celebration, and as those that in cases of necessity are Ministers without Ordination; so are such Christians as Constantine and many of old without Baptism.