A26892:6700
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. 69. Have all the members of the Church right to the Lords Table? And is Suspension lawful?
OF this see the Defence of the Synods Propositions in New England. I answer,
1. You must distinguish between a fundamental Right of State, and an immediate right of present possession; or if you will, Between a Right duly to receive the Sacrament, and a Right to immediate reception simply considered.
2. You must distinguish between a Questioned Controverted right, and an unquestioned right; And so you must conclude as followeth.
1. Every Church-member (at least adult) as such, hath the fundamental right of stated Relation, or a Right duly to receive the Sacrament; that is, To receive it understandingly and seriously at those seasons when by the Pastors it is administered.