A26892:6236
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.
9. Some think that Elect Infants are saved, and no other, but no man can know who those are. And of these, 1. Some deny Infant Baptism; 2. Most say that they are to be baptized, and that thereby the non-elect are only received into the visible Church, and its privileges, but not to any promise or certainty of Justification, or a state of salvation.
9. Some think that Elect Infants are saved, and no other, but no man can know who those are. And of these, 1. Some deny Infant Baptism; 2. Most say that they are to be baptized, and that thereby the non-elect are only received into the visible Church, and its priviledges, but not to any promise or certainty of Justification, or a state of salvation.
10. Some think that all that are baptized by the Dedication of Christian Sponsors are saved.
11. Some think that all that the Pastor Dedicateth to God are saved, (because so dedicated by him say some; or because baptized ex opere operato say others.) And so all baptized Infants are in a state of salvation.
12. Some think that this is to be limited to all that have right to Baptism coram Deo; which some think the Churches reception giveth them, of which anon.