A26892:7432
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.
2. And what Priest is able to know whom to take for a Christian and baptizable upon such terms as these. Who knoweth just what opportunities of knowledge other men have had? and what impediments? And will they indeed baptize a man that is a Heathen, because he had not opportunity to come to the knowledge of Christianity? I think they will not: Or will they deny Baptism to one that knoweth and believeth only all the Articles of the Creed, and the chief points of Religion, because he knoweth not as much more, as he had opportunity to know? I think not. Do not these men perceive how they condemn themselves? For do they not say themselves, that Baptism to the due receiver washeth away sin, and puts the person in a state of life? O when will God deliver his poor Church from factious deceivers?
3. Either Christianity is something, and discernible, or nothing, and undiscernible? If the latter, then Christians are not to be distinguished from Heathens and Infidels. If the former, then Christianity hath its Constitutive parts, by which it is what it is. And then it hath essential parts distinguishable from the rest.
3. Either Christianity is something, and discernable, or nothing, and undiscernable? If the latter, then Christians are not to be distinguished from Heathens and Infidels. If the former, then Christianity hath its Constitutive parts, by which it is what it is. And then it hath essential parts distinguishable from the rest.
4. The word Fundamentals being but a Metaphor, hath given room to deceivers and Contenders to make a Controversy, and raise a dust about it. Therefore I purposely use the word [Essentials] which is not so liable to mens Cavils.
4. The word Fundamentals being but a Metaphor, hath given room to deceivers and Contenders to make a Controversie, and raise a dust about it. Therefore I purposely use the word [Essentials] which is not so lyable to mens Cavils.