A26892:6375
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.
15. But when and in what sort and degree Christ giveth the actual operations of the spirit to all Covenanted Infants, it is wonderful hard for us to know. But this much seemeth clear, 1. That Christ may when he please work on the soul of an Infant to change its disposition, before he come to the use of Reason. 2. That Christ and his spirit as in Covenant with Infants, are ready to give all necessary assistance to Infants for their inherent sanctification, in the use of those means, and on those1 further conditions, on which we must wait for it and expect it. For the Holy Ghost is not so engaged to us in our Covenant or Baptism, as to be obliged presently to give us all the grace that we want; But only to give it us on certain further conditions, and in the use of certain means. But because this leadeth me up to another question, I will suspend the rest of the answer to this, till that be handled. Only I must answer this objection.
- 1Mr. Whiston p. 60. showeth [That even the promises of a new Heart, &c. Ezek 36▪ 37, &c. Though they may run in the external tenor of them absolutely, yet are not absolutely absolute, but have a subordinate condition, and that is, That the parties concerned in them do faithfully use the means appointed of God in a subserviency to his working in or bestowing on them the Good promised.]Mr. Whiston p. 60. shewe•h [That even the promises of a new Heart, &c. Ezek 36▪ 37, &c. Though they may run in the external tenour of them absolutely, yet are not absolutely absolute, but have a subordinate condition, and that is, That the parties concerned in them do faithfully use the means appointed of God in a subserviency to his working in or bestowing on them the Good promised.]