A26892:6197
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. 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?
Answ. I. 1. WE must distinguish between certainty objective and subjective, or plainlyer, the1 Reality or Truth of the Thing, and the certain apprehension of it.
- 1Since the writing of this, there is come forth an excellent Book for Infant Baptism by Mr. Joseph Whisto•, in which the Grounds of my present Solutions are nota••y cleared.Since the writing of this, there is come forth an excellent Book for Infant Baptism by Mr. Ioseph Whisto•, in which the Grounds of my present Solutions are nota••y cleared.
2. And this certainty of apprehension, sometime signifieth only the Truth of that apprehension, when a man indeed is not deceived, or more usually that clearness of apprehension joined with Truth, which fully quieteth the mind and excludeth doubting.
2. And this certainty of apprehension, sometime signifieth only the Truth of that apprehension, when a man indeed is not deceived, or more usually that clearness of apprehension joyned with Truth, which fully quieteth the mind and excludeth doubting.