A26939:118
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.
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.
He is a Christian that believeth Christ to be true God and true Man in one Person, and trusteth him as our only Redeemer by his Merits and Passion, and our Mediator in the Heavens, and obeyeth him as our Sovereign Lord, for pardon, for his Spirit and for Salvation. And as a Christian this man is to be loved and used, tho he have not so much skill in Metaphysics, as to know whether it be a proper speech to call Mary the Mother of God, or that one of the Trinity was crucified, or to know in what sense Christs Natures might be called One or Two, and in what sense he might be said to have One Will or Two Wills, One Operation or Two: And know not whether the tria Capitula were to be condemned; yea tho he could not define, or clearly tell what Hypostasis, persona, yea, or substantia signifieth in God; nor tell whether God of Gods be a proper Speech.
He is a Christian that beleiveth Christ to be true God and true Man in one Person, and trusteth him as our only Redeemer by his Merits and Passion, and our Mediator in the Heavens, and obeyeth him as our Soveragin Lord, for pardon, for his Spirit and for Salvation. And as a Christian this man is to be loved and used, tho he have not so much skill in Metaphysicks, as to know whether it be a proper speech to call Mary the Mother of God, or that one of the Trinity was crucified, or to know in what sense Christs Natures might be called One or Two, and in what sense he might be said to have One Will or Two Wills, One Operation or Two: And know not whether the tria Capitula were to be condemned; yea tho he could not define, or clearly tell what Hypostasis, persona, yea, or substantia signifieth in God; nor tell whether God of Gods be a proper Speech.