A26892:6418
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.
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 God1 doth not enter into the present Covenant-Relations to him, as being uncapable thereof.
- 1Acts 8▪ 37, 3•. 13. 20, 21, 22, 23.
8. If this person afterwards Repent and Believe, it is a doing of the same thing which was omitted in baptism, and a making of the same Covenant; But not as a part of his Baptism it self, which is long past.
9. Nor is he hereupon to be Re-baptized; Because the external part was done before, and is not to be twice done. But the Internal part which was omitted; is now to be done, not as a part of baptism (old or new); but as a Part of Penitence, for his omission.