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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Contents › Part 4: TOME IV. Christian Politics.Contents › Part 4: TOME IV. Christian Politicks.
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. XI. Special Directions to escape the guilt of persecution: Determining much of the Case about Liberty in matters of Religion. p 67. What is persecution. The several kinds of it. The greatness ⟨image 14⟩of the sin. Understand the Case of Christs interest in the world. Q. Whether particular Churches should require more of their members as Conditions of Communion, than the Catholic Church? and What? Penalties to be chosen that hinder the Gospel least. More Directions, to the number of forty one.
CHAP. XI. Special Directions to escape the guilt of persecution: Determining much of the Case about Liberty in matters of Religion. p 67. What is persecution. The several kinds of it. The greatness ⟨image 14⟩of the sin. Understand the Case of Christs interest in the world. Q. Whether particular Churches should require more of their members as Conditions of Communion, than the Catholick Church? and What? Penalties to be chosen that hinder the Gospel least. More Directions, to the number of forty one.
CHAP. XII. Directions against Scandal as Given. p. 80. What Scandal is, and what not? The sorts of scandalizing. The Scripture sense of it. Twenty Directions.
CHAP. XIII. Directions against Scandal taken, or an aptness to receive hurt by the words or deeds of others: Especially quarrelling with Godliness. p. 88. or taking encouragement to sin. Practical Directions against taking hurt by others. p. 90.