A26892:6732
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.
10. It is to be maintained that these are in a state of salvation, even before they thus communicate. And that they are not kept away for want of a stated Relation-title, but of an immediate capacity, as is aforesaid.
11. There is no necessity, but upon such unfitness, that there should be one days time between baptism and the Sacrament of the Lords Supper: nor is it desirable: For if the baptized understand those mysteries the first day, they may communicate in them.
11. There is no necessity, but upon such unfitness, that there should be one dayes time between baptism and the Sacrament of the Lords Supper: nor is it desirable: For if the baptized understand those mysteries the first day, they may communicate in them.
12. Therefore as men are prepared, some may suddenly communicate and some stay longer.
13. When persons are at age, if Pastors, Parents and themselves be not grossly negligent, they may and ought to learn these things in a very little time; so that they need not be settled in a lower Learning state, for any considerable time, unless their own negligence be the cause.