A26892:6437
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?
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3. And I confess I make little doubt but that those in Acts 19. were Re-baptized, notwithstanding the witty evasion invented by Phil. Marnixius Aldegondus and Beza's improvement of it, and the now common reception of that interpretation; For 1. A new and forced exposition which no Reader1 dreameth of till it be put into his head, is usually to be suspected, lest art deceive us.2
- 1Of Acts 19▪ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
- 2Whether it were re-baptizing.
2. The omission of the Holy Ghost is an essential defect, and maketh Baptism specifically another thing: And he were now to be re-baptized who should be so baptized.
3. Whatever some say in heat against the Papists, Johns baptism and our Christian baptism are so specifically distinct also, that he that had now but Johns were to be yet baptized: The person of the Messiah himself being not determinately put into Johns baptism as such: Nor can it be supposed that all the Jews that John baptized, were baptized into the profession of faith in this numerical person ⟨p. 825⟩Jesus, but only to an unknown Saviour undetermined: However he pointed to Christ in the hearing of some of his disciples. We must not run from plain truth in peevishness of opposition to Papists o any other men.