A26892:6201
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.
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.
3. We must distinguish of Infants as Baptised Lawfully upon just title, or unlawfully without title.
4. And also of Title before God, which maketh a Lawful claim and Reception at his bar; and Title before the Church, which maketh only the Administration lawful before God, and the Reception lawful only in foro ecclesiae or externo.
5. The word Baptism signifieth either the external part only, consisting in the words and outward action, or the Internal Covenanting of the heart also.