A26892:6247
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.
6. And therefore that whoever hath right before God, to claim and Receive Baptism, hath right also to the benefits of the Covenant of God, and that is, to salvation: Though I say not so of every one that hath such right before the Church, as that God doth require the Minister to Baptize him. For by Right before God, or in foro coeli I mean, such a Right as will justify the claim before God immediately, the person being one whom he commandeth in that present state to claim and receive baptism. For many a one hath no such right before God to claim or receive it, when yet the Minister hath right1 to give it them if they do claim it.
6. And therefore that whoever hath right before God, to claim and Receive Baptism, hath right also to the benefits of the Covenant of God, and that is, to salvation: Though I say not so of every one that hath such right before the Church, as that God doth require the Minister to Baptize him. For by Right before God, or in foro coeli I mean, such a Right as will justifie the claim before God immediately, the person being one whom he commandeth in that present state to claim and receive baptism. For many a one hath no such right before God to claim or receive it, when yet the Minister hath right1 to give it them if they do claim it.