A26892:6429
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.
Part 3 › Question 46: Quest. 46. May not Baptism in some Cases be repeated? And when?
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.
Quest. 46. May not Baptism in some Cases be repeated? And when?
Answ. 1. You must distinguish between Baptism, taken Morally, or only Physically. 2. Between Baptism Morally, as it is a Church or Visible Covenant, and as a Heart▪Covenant. 3. Between Real baptism and seeming baptism, which is a Nullity. 4. Between certain reception of baptism, and that which is uncertain or justly doubted of. And so I answer,
Answ. 1. YOu must distinguish between Baptism, taken Morally, or only Physically. 2. Between Baptism Morally, as it is a Church or Visible Covenant, and as a Heart▪Covenant. 3. Between Real baptism and seeming baptism, which is a Nullity. 4. Between certain reception of baptism, and that which is uncertain or justly doubted of. And so I answer,
1. Real and Certain Baptism as a visible Church-Ordinance may not be repeated. Though the Heart-Covenant was wanting. And though it wanted not only decent modes, but integral parts.
2. But in these cases Baptism may be used where it seemed to have been received before.