A26892:6370
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.
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.
12. So the adult themselves have the operation of the spirit by which they Believe and Repent, by which they come to have their Right to Gods part in the Covenant of Baptism; (for this is antecedent to their baptism): But they have not that gift of the spirit, which is called in Scripture, the spirit 1of sanctification, and of Power, Love and a sound mind, and is the benefit given by the Covenant of Baptism, till afterward; Because they must be in that Covenant before it can be made good to them. And their Faith or Consent is their Infants right also, antecedent to the Covenant gift.