A26892:13
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.
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.
READERS,
THE Book is so big that I must make no longer Preface, than to give you this necessary short account, 1. Of the Quality, 2. And the Reasons of this Work.
I. The matter you will see in the Contents: As Am•sius his Cases of Conscience are to his Medulla, the second and Practical part of Theology, so is this to a Methodus Theologiae which I have not yet published. And 1. As to the Method of this, it is partly natural, but principally Moral, that is, partly suitable to the real order of the Matter, but chiefly of usefulness, secundum ordinem Intentionis, where our reasons of each location are fetched from the End. Therefore unless I might be tedious in opening my reasons à fine for the order of every particular, I know not how to give you full satisfaction. But in this Practical part I am the less solicitous about the Accurateness of method, because it more belongeth to the former Part (the Theory) where I do it as well as I am able.
I. The matter you will see in the Contents: As Am•sius his Cases of Conscience are to his Medulla, the second and Practical part of Theologie, so is this to a Methodus Theologiae which I have not yet published. And 1. As to the Method of this, it is partly natural, but principally Moral, that is, partly suitable to the real order of the Matter, but chiefly of usefulness, secundum ordinem Intentionis, where our reasons of each location are fetcht from the End. Therefore unless I might be tedious in opening my reasons à fine for the order of every particular, I know not how to give you full satisfaction. But in this Practical part I am the less solicitous about the Accurateness of method, because it more belongeth to the former Part (the Theory) where I do it as well as I am able.