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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.
Part 3 › Question 99: Quest. 99. How many Sacraments are there appointed by Christ?
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.
6. The solemn Covenant of a Master with his servant, is on the same account, an Economical Sacrament.
6. The solemn Covenant of a Master with his servant, is on the same account, an Oeconomical Sacrament.
7. The inauguration of a King, in which he is sworn to his subjects, and dedicated to God in that Office, and his subjects sworn or consent to him, is a Civil Sacrament, whether Unction be added or not. And so is a Judges entrance on his Office, when it is done so solemnly by an obliging V•w or Covenant.
8. Confirmation in the Papists sense, as conferred by Chrism on Infants for giving them the Holy Ghost, is but an unwarrantable imitation of the old miraculous operation by the Apostles, and neither a Christian Sacrament, nor a warrantable practice, but a presumption.
8. Confirmation in the Papists sense, as conferred by Chrysm on Infants for giving them the Holy Ghost, is but an unwarrantable imitation of the old miraculous operation by the Apostles, and neither a Christian Sacrament, nor a warrantable practice, but a presumption.