A26892:6290
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.
3. If there be no promise made to the seed of the faithful more than to others, they have no right more than others to baptism or salvation. But if there be a promise made to them as the seed of believers, then are they as such within that promise, that is, performers of its conditions by their Parents, and have right to the benefit.
4. If the Heart Consent or faith of the Adult, do put themselves into a state of salvation, before their baptism, then it doth so by their children: But &c.—
5. But this Right to salvation in Parents and Children upon Heart Consent before baptism, is only before God. For the Church taketh no Cognizance of secret heart-transactions: But a man then only consenteth in the Judgement of the Church, when he openly professeth it, and desireth to signify it by being baptized.
5. But this Right to salvation in Parents and Children upon Heart Consent before baptism, is only before God. For the Church taketh no Cognizance of secret heart-transactions: But a man then only consenteth in the Judgement of the Church, when he openly professeth it, and desireth to signifie it by being baptized.