A26892:6412
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.
1. It is not baptism, if there be not the profession of a present belief, a present consent, and a present dedition, or resignation, or dedication of the person to God, by the adult for themselves, and by Parents for their Infants. He that only saith, [I promise to believe, repent and obey only at twenty or thirty years of age,] is not morally baptized; for it is another Covenant of his own which he would make, which God accepteth not.
2. It is not only a future, but a present Relation to God, as his Own, his Subjects, his Children by Redemption, to which the baptized person doth consent.
3. It is a present correlation and not a future only, to which God consenteth on his pa•t, to be their Father, Saviour and Sanctifier, their Owner peculiarly, their Ruler graciously, and their chief Benefactor, and Felicity, and End.
3. It is a present correlation and not a future only, to which God consenteth on his pa•t, to be their Father, Saviour and S•nctifier, their Owner peculiarly, their Ruler gratiously, and their chief Benefactor, and Felicity, and End.