A26892:6415
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.
4. It is not only a future but a present Remission of sin, and Adoption and right to temporal and eternal mercies, which God giveth to true Consenters by his Covenant and Baptism.
5. But those mercies which we are not at that present capable of, are not to be given at the present, but afterward when we are capable: As the particular assistances of the Spirit, necessary upon all future particular occasions, &c. The pardon of future sins; Actual Glorification, &c.1
- 1Rom. 6. 1, •, 6, 7, &c.
6. And the Duties which are to be performed only for the future, we must promise at present to perform only for the future, in their season, to our lives end. Therefore we cannot promise that Infants shall believe, obey or Love God, till they are naturally capable of doing it.
7. If any hypocrite do not indeed Repent, Believe or Consent when he is baptized, or baptizeth his child, he so far faileth in the Covenant professed: And so much of baptism is undone; And God