A26892:6310
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.
5. It would keep most children unbaptized; Because if it were once understood that they must take them as their own, few would be Sponsors to the children of the poor, for fear of keeping them; and few but the Ignorant that know not what they do, would be Sponsors for any, ⟨p. 815⟩because of the greatness of the charge, and their averseness to adopt the children of others.
5. It would keep most children unbaptized; Because if it were once understood that they must take them as their own, few would be Sponsors to the children of the poor, for fear of keeping them; and few but the Ignorant that know not what they do, would be Sponsors for any, ⟨p. 815⟩because of the greatness of the charge, and their aversness to adopt the children of others.
6. It would make great confusion in the State, while all men were bound to exchange children with another.
7. I never knew one man or woman that was a God-father or God-mother on such terms, nor that took the child to be their own: And if such a one should be found among ten thousand, that is no rule to discern the judgement of the Church by.