A26892:6961
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.
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.
9. The same may be said of their Sacrament of Extreme Unction.
9. The same may be said of their Sacrament of Extream Unction.
10. Their Sacrament of Marriage is no otherwise a Sacrament, than the Inauguration of a King is; which is approved by God as well as Marriage, and signifieth also an honourable Collation of Power from the Universal King.
11. Their Sacrament of Penance is no otherwise a Sacrament than many other fore-mentioned renewings of our Covenant are.