A26892:7436
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.
6. The Baptismal Covenant of Grace therefore is the Essential part of the Gospel, and of the Christian Religion: And all the rest are the Integrals, and Accidents, or Adjuncts.
7. This Covenant containeth,
I. Objectively, 1. Things True as such, 2. Things Good as such, 3. Things Practicable or to be done, as such: The Credenda, Diligenda, (& Eligenda) & Agenda; as the objects of mans Intellect, Will, and Practical power.
The Credenda or things to be known and believed are, 1. God as God, and our God and Father, 2. Christ as the Saviour and our Saviour, 3. The Holy Ghost as such, and as the Sanctifier and our Sanctifier (as to the offer of these Relations in the Covenant).
The Diligenda are the same three persons in these three Relations as Good in themselves and unto us, which includeth the grand benefits, of Reconciliation and Adoption, Justification, and Sanctification, and Salvation.