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How to do good to many, or, The public good is the Christians life…How to do good to many, or, The publick good is the Christians life…
How to do good to many, or, The public good is the Christians life directions and motives to it, intended for an auditory of London citizens, and published for them, for want of leave to preach them / by Richard Baxter.How to do good to many, or, The publick good is the Christians life directions and motives to it, intended for an auditory of London citizens, and published for them, for want of leave to preach them / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Rob. Gibs, 1682
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.
1. Far be it from any Christian to think that Christ hath not so much as told us what Christianity is, and who they be that we must take for Christians, when he hath commanded them all so earnestly to love each other. Is not Baptism our Christening? Every one that hath entered into that Covenant with Christ, and understandingly and seriously professeth to stand to it, and is not proved by inconsistent words or deeds to nullify that profession, is to be taken for a Christian, and used in love and Communion as such.
1. Far be it from any Christian to think that Christ hath not so much as told us what Christianity is, and who they be that we must take for Christians, when he hath commanded them all so earnestly to love each other. Is not Baptism our Christening? Every one that hath entred into that Covenant with Christ, and understandingly and seriously professeth to stand to it, and is not proved by inconsistent words or deeds to nullifie that profession, is to be taken for a Christian, and used in love and Communion as such.
Consider of these words, and consider whether all Churches have walked by this Rule, and whether swerving from it have not been the cause of corruption and confusion.
He is a Christian fit for our Communion, who is baptized in infancy, and owneth it solemnly at age. And so is he that was not baptized, 'till he himself believed.
He is a Christian fit for our Communion, who is baptized in infancy, and owneth it solemnly at age. And so is he that was not baptized, 'til he himself beleived.