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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
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. Now let us by this try the case of Infants; concerning which there are all these several opinions among Divines.
1. Some think that all Infants (baptized or not) are saved from Hell and positive punishment, but are not brought to Heaven as being not capable of such joys.
1. Some think that all Infants (baptized or not) are saved from Hell and positive punishment, but are not brought to Heaven as being not capable of such joyes.
2. Some think that all Infants (dying such) are saved as others are, by actual felicity in Heaven, though in a lower degree. Both these sorts suppose that Christs death saveth all that reject […] not, and that Infants reject it not.
2. Some think that all Infants (dying such) are saved as others are, by actual felicity in Heaven, though in a lower degree. Both these sorts suppose that Christs death saveth all that reject 〈…〉 not, and that Infants reject it not.
3. Some think that all unbaptized Infants do suffer the poenam damni and are shut out of Heaven and happiness, but not sensibly punished or cast into Hell. For this Jansenius hath wrote a Treatise; and many other Papists think so.