A26892:6311
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. 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.
8. And in Confirmation the God-father and God-mother is expressly said to be for this use, to be Witnesses that the Party is Confirmed.
8. And in Confirmation the God-father and God-mother is expresly said to be for this use, to be Witnesses that the Party is Confirmed.
9. And in the Priests speech to the Adult that come for baptism, in the Office of baptism of those of riper years, it is the persons themselves that are to promise and covenant for themselves, and the God-fathers and God-mothers are only called [these your Witnesses.] And if they be but Witnesses to the adult, its like they are not Adopters of Infants.