A26892:6368
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.
8. Though an Infant be a distinct natural person from his Parents, yet is he not actually a distinct person Morally, as being not a moral Agent, and so not capable of moral Actions good or evil. Therefore his Parents Will goeth for his.
9. His first acceptance into the Complacencial Love of God (as distinct from his Love of Benevolence) is not for any inherent Holiness in himself; but 1. As the Child of a believing Parent who hath Dedicated him to Christ, and 2. As a member of Christ, in whom he is well pleased.
10. Therefore God can complacencially as well as benevolently Love an Infant in Christ, who only believeth and Repenteth by the Parents, and not by himself, nor is not yet supposed to have the spirit of sanctification.
11. For the spirit of sanctification is not the presupposed Condition of his acceptance into Covenant with God, but a gift of the Covenant of God it self, following both the Condition on our part, and our right to be Covenanters or to Gods promise upon that condition.