A26892:6704
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. 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.
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 administred.
2. But if upon faults or accusations, this Right be duly questioned in the Church, it is become a controverted right; and the possession or admission may by the Bishops or Pastors of the Church, be suspended, if they see cause, while it is under trial, till a just decision.
2. But if upon faults or accusations, this Right be duly questioned in the Church, it is become a controverted right; and the possession or admission may by the Bishops or Pastors of the Church, be suspended, if they see cause, while it is under tryall, till a just decision.
3. Though Infants are true members, yet the want of natural capacity, duly to receive, maketh it unlawful to give them the Sacrament, because it is to be Given only to Receivers, and Receiving is more than eating and drinking; It is Consenting to the Covenant, which is the real Receiving in a moral sense, or at least Consent professed. So that they want not a state of right, as to their Relation, but a natural capacity to Receive.