A26892:6406
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.
Answ. 1. Lost it is one way or other, with multitudes of true Christians Children, who never show any signs of grace, and prove sometimes the worst of men. And God breaketh not his Covenant.
Answ. 1. Lost it is one way or other, with multitudes of true Christians Children, who never shew any signes of grace, and prove sometimes the worst of men. And God breaketh not his Covenant.
2. How doth the Church keep the Greeks Children that are made Janissaries?
2. How doth the Church keep the Greeks Children that are made Janizaries?
3. No man stayeth in the Church without title. If the Church or any Christians take them as their own, that's another matter: I will not now stay to discuss the question, whether Apostate's Baptized Infants be still Church-members? But what I have said of their right before God, seemeth plain.
4. And mark, that on whomsoever you build an Infants Right, you may as well say, that he may suffer for other mens default: For, if you build it on the Magistrate, the Minister, the Church, the God-fathers, any of them may fail: They may deny him Baptism it self: They may fail in his education: Shall he suffer then for want of baptism, or good education when it is their faults? Whoever a Child or man is to receive a benefit by, the failing of that person may deprive him of that benefit. More objections I must pretermit, to avoid prolixity.