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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
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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.
CHAP. X. Directions about our Communion with holy souls departed, now with Christ. p. 758
CHAP. XI. Directions about our Communion with the holy Angels. p. 763
The Contents of the Ecclesiastical Cases of Conscience added to the Third Part. Q. 1. How to know which is the true Church among all pretenders, that a Christians Conscience may be quiet in his Relation and communion? p. 771 Q. 2. Whether we must esteem the Church of Rome a true Church? And in what sense some Protestant Divines affirm it, and some deny it? p. 774 Q. 3. Whether we must take the Romish Clergy for a true Ministry? p. 775 Q. 4. Whether it be necessary to believe that the Pope is the Antichrist? p. 777 Q. 5. Whether we must hold that a Papist may be saved? p. 778 Q. 6. Whether those that are in the Church of Rome are bound to separate from it? And whether it be lawful to go to their Mass or other worship? p. 779 Q. 7. Whether the true calling of the Minister▪ by Ordination or Election be necessary to the essence of the Church? ibid Q. 8. Whether sincere faith and Godliness be necessary to the being of the Ministry? And whether it be lawful to hear a wicked man, or take the Sacrament from him, or take him for a Minister? p. 780 Q. 9. Whether the people are bound to receive or consent to an ungodly intolerable heretical Pastor, (yea or one far less fit and worthy than a competitor) if the Magistrate command it, or the Bishop impose him? p. 781 Q. 10. What if the Magistrate command the people to receive one Pastor; and the Bishop or Ordainers another, which of them must be obeyed? p. 787 Q. 11. Whether an uninterrupted succession either of right Ordination or of conveyance by jurisdiction, be necessary to the being of the Ministry, or of a true Church? p. 787 Q. 12. Whether there be or ever was such a thing in the world, as one Catholic Church constituted by any head besides or under Christ? p. 789 Q 13. Whether there be such a thing as a visible Catholic Church, and what it is? ibid. Q. 14. What is it that maketh a visible member of the universal Church, and who are to be accounted such? p. 790 Q. 15. Whether besides the profession of Christianity, either testimony or evidence of conversion or practical Godliness be necessary to prove a man a member of the Universal visible Church? ibid. Q. 16. What is necessary to a mans reception into membership in a particular Church, over and above this foresaid title? Whether any other trials, or Covenant or What? p. 791 Q. 17. Wherein doth the Ministerial office Essentially consist? p. 792 Q. 18.