Mr. Richard Baxter's last legacy in select admonitions and directions to all sober dissenters

P. 123. of Christ. Direct. Q. 49. May one offer his Child to be baptized with the sign of the Cross, the use of Chrism, and the white Garment, Milk and Honey, or Exorcism, as in the Lutheran Churches.

P. 123. of Christ. Direct. Q. 49. May one offer his Child to be baptized with the sign of the Cross, the use of Crisme, and the white Garment, Milk and Honey, or Exorcism, as in the Lutheran Churches.

Answ. 4. When he cannot lawfully have better, he may and must offer his Child to them that will so baptize him, rather than not at all, because Baptism is God's Ordinance, and the Sin is the Ministers, and not his. Another Man's sinful mode will not justify the neglect of our Duty, else we might not join in Prayer or Sacrament in which the Minister modally sinneth (i. e.) in none.

Answ. 4. When he cannot lawfully have better, he may and must offer his Child to them that will so baptize him, rather than not at all, because Baptism is God's Ordinance, and the Sin is the Ministers, and not his. Another Man's sinful mode will not justifie the neglect of our Duty, else we might not joyn in Prayer or Sacrament in which the Minister modally sinneth (i. e.) in none.

Mr. B. grants p. 161. of Christ. Direct. Edit. 2. That it is not unlawful to make an Image to be objectum vel medium excitans ad Cultum Dei, an object of our Consideration, exciting our Minds to worship God as a Death's-head or Crucifix, to stir up in us a worshipping Affection; and that it is lawful by the sight of a Crucifix to be provoked to worship God.