A26892:1273
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.
Part 1 › Chapter 3 › Direction 10 › Directions for faithful serving Christ, and doing Good.
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.
§. 38. Quest. 7. But seeing he that knoweth his Masters will and doth it not, shall be beaten with1 ⟨p. 136⟩[…] •e that knoweth it not, with few; is it not my duty chiefly to avoid the many […] against my Conscience or Knowledge?
§. 38. Quest. 7. But seeing he that knoweth his Masters will and doth it not, shall be beaten with1 ⟨p. 136⟩〈…〉 •e that knoweth it not, with few; is it not my duty chiefly to avoid the many 〈…〉 against my Conscience or Kn•wledge?
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Answ. 1. Your duty is to avoid both: and if both were not sinful, they would not both be1 […]ish•d w•th […]: 2. Your Conscience is not your Knowledge when you err, but your Igno[…]. […] •• it signifieth the faculty of Knowing may be said to be Conscience when it erreth; as […] is […] in the ••••ulty when we err. And Conscience as to an erring act, may be called […] so far as there is any true Knowledge in the act; (as a man is said to see when he misjudgeth of […], or to Reason when he argueth amiss) But so far as it erreth it is no Conscience in act at all: or Conscience is science, and not nescience. You sin against your Knowledge, when you sin against a well informed Conscience; but you sin in ignorance when you sin against an erring […] 3. And if the Question be not, what is your duty, but which is the smaller sin, then it is true, that […] bus it is a greater sin to go against your judgement, than to follow it. But […] impaities in matter and circumstances, may be an exception against this rule.