A26892:6285
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. 37. Are Believers Children certainly in Covenant before their Baptism, and thereby in a state of Salvation? Or not till they are baptized?
Answ. Distinguish between 1. Heart-Covenanting, and Mouth-Covenanting: 2. Between being in Covenant before God, and Visibly before the Church.
Answ. DIstinguish between 1. Heart-Covenanting, and Mouth-Covenanting: 2. Between being in Covenant before God, and Visibly before the Church.
1. No person is to be baptized at age, whose Inward Heart Consent before professed, giveth him not Right to baptism. Therefore all the adult must be in Covenant, that is, Consent on their part to the Covenant, before they are baptized.
2. Therefore it is so with the seed of the faithful, who must Consent by their Parents, before they have right: Otherwise all should have right, and their baptism be essentially another baptism, as sealing some other Covenant, or none.