A26892:6475
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.
Quest. 51. Whether it be necessary that they that are baptized in Infancy, do solemnly at age renew and own their Baptismal Covenant, before they have right to the state and privileges of adult members? And if they do not, Whether they are to be numbered with Christians or Apostates?
Quest. 51. Whether it be necessary that they that are baptized in Infancy, do solemnly at age renew and own their Baptismal Covenant, before they have right to the state and priviledges of adult members? And if they do not, Whether they are to be numbered with Christians or Apostates?
Answ. 1. Church-membership is the same thing in Infants and in the Adult.
Answ. 1. CHurch-membership is the same thing in Infants and in the Adult.
2. Infants are naturally uncapable of doing all that in baptism which the adult must do: As to understand, profess, &c. themselves.
3. The baptism of the Adult, being the most complete, because of the maturity of the receivers, is made the standing pattern in Scripture: For God formeth his Ordinances to the most perfect ordinary receivers.