A26892:7457
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. That their successors in the Common Ministry, did as far as any Church History leadeth us up, Instruct and Catechise men in the meaning of the Baptismal Covenant, (which is the Christian faith,) before they baptized them: Yea, they kept them long in the state of Catechumens usually, before they would baptize them. And after baptized but twice a year, at Easter and Whitsuntide (as our Liturgy noteth) And they received an account of their tolerable understanding of Religion, before they would receive them into the Church.
6. That their successors in the Common Ministery, did as far as any Church History leadeth us up, Instruct and Catechise men in the meaning of the Baptismal Covenant, (which is the Christian faith,) before they baptized them: Yea, they kept them long in the state of Catechumens usually, before they would baptize them. And after baptized but twice a year, at Easter and Whitsontide (as our Liturgy noteth) And they received an account of their tolerable understanding of Religion, before they would receive them into the Church.
7. No doubt then, but the Apostles did cause the baptizable, to understand the three Articles of Christs own Creed and Covenant, and to give some account of it before they baptized them, ordinarily among the Gentiles.
8. No doubt therefore but they used many more Explicatory words, to cause them to understand those few.