A26892:6456
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. He that judgeth them unlawful, must first do his best to be ••rtain whether they be so or not.
2. If so, he must never approve of them, or consent to them.
3. He must not offer his child to be so baptized, when caeteris paribus, he may have it done in a better manner on lawful terms.
4. But when he cannot lawfully have better, he may and must offer his child, to them that will so baptize him, rather than to worse, or not at all: Because baptism is Gods Ordinance and his privilege, and the sin is the Ministers and not his. Another mans sinful Mode will not justify the neglect of our duty: Else we might not join in any Prayer or Sacrament in which the Minister modally sinneth: that is, with none.
4. But when he cannot lawfully have better, he may and must offer his child, to them that will so baptize him, rather than to worse, or not at all: Because baptism is Gods Ordinance and his priviledge, and the sin is the Ministers and not his. Another mans sinful Mode will not justifie the neglect of our duty: Else we might not joyn in any Prayer or Sacrament in which the Minister modally sinneth: that is, with none.