A26892:6459
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. 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.
5. The Milk and Honey, White Garment and Chrism, are so ancient (called by Epiphanius and others the Traditions and Customs of the Universal Church) that the original of them is not known. And he that then would not be so baptized, must not have been baptized at all.
5. The Milk and Honey, White Garment and Chrysme, are so antient (called by Epiphanius and others the Traditions and Customes of the Universal Church) that the original of them is not known. And he that then would not be so baptized, must not have been baptized at all.
6. But in this case he that bringeth his child to baptism, should make known, that it is baptism only that he desireth; and that he disowneth and disalloweth the manner which he accounteth sinful: And then he is no consenter to it.