A26892:6485
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.
9. He that being baptized in infancy, doth no way at full age own his Baptismal Covenant, is to be taken for an Apostate: 1. Because his Infant title ceaseth: 2. And he notoriously violateth his Covenant: 3. Because he can be no adult Christian that no way owneth Christ.
10. But this is to be understood of those that have opportunity: For one in a Wilderness among Heathens only, cannot join in public Worship, nor give testimony of his Christianity to the Church.
10. But this is to be understood of those that have opportunity: For one in a Wilderness among Heathens only, cannot joyn in publick Worship, nor give testimony of his Christianity to the Church.
11. Though the Sacrament of the Lords Supper be appointed for the renewing of our Covenant at age, yet is it not the first owning of the Covenant, by the aged: For that Sacrament belongeth neither to Infants nor Infidels: And he that claimeth it, must be an adult Church-member or Christian; which those are not, who at full age no way ever owned their baptismal Covenant, nor made any personal profession of Christianity.
But of this I have written purposely in a Treatise of Confirmation long ago.