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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. XXVIII. Cases of and Directions for the Love of Godly persons as such. p. 173 Tit. The Cases. Q. 1. How can we love the Godly, when none can know another to be sincere? Q. 2. Must we Love them as Godly that give no account of the time, manner, or means of their Conversion? Q. 3. What if they are so ignorant that they know not what faith, repentance, conversion, &c. are? Q. 4. Must I take the Visible members of the Church for truly Godly? Q. 5. Must we take all visible members equally to be Godly and Lovely? Q. 6. Must we love all equally, strong and weak, that seem sincere? Q. 7. Must we love those better that have much grace and little useful gifts, or those that have less grace and more profitable gifts for the Church? Q. 8. Must we love him as Godly who liveth in any heinous sin? Q. 9. Must an Excommunicate person be Loved as Godly, or not? Q. 10. Can an unsanctified man truly Love a Godly man? Q. 11. Can he love him because he is Godly? Q. 12. May he love a Godly man because he would make him Godly? Q. 13. Doth any such love the Godly more than others? Q. 14. Do all true Christians love all the Godly that wrong them, or differ from them? Q. 15. What is that love of the Godly which proveth our sincerity, and which no Hypocrite can reach to? Tit. 2. Directions for true Loving the Children of God. p. 176 ⟨image 16⟩Tit. 3. Motives or Meditative helps to Love the Godly? p. 177 Tit. 4. The hind•rances and enemies of Christian Lo••. p. 178 Tit. 5. The Counterfeits of Christian Love. p. 179 Tit. 6. •ases and Directions for Intimate special friends. p. 180 Q. 1. Is it lawful to have an earnest desire to be loved by others: Especially by some one above all others? Q. 2. Is it lawful, meet or desirable, to entertain that extraordinary affection to any, which is called sp•cial Friendship? or to have one endeared intimate friend, whom we prefer before all others? Q. 3. Is it meet to have more bosom friends than •e? Q. 4. Is it meet for him to choose any other bosom friend, that hath a pious Wife? and is any so fit for this friendship as a Wife? Q. 5. Is it meet to Love a friend for our own commodity? Must I or my friend be the chief end of my Love or friendship? Q. 6. May we keep any secret from such a friend? or have any suspicion of him, or suppose that he may prove unfaithful? Q. 7. May we change an old bosom friend for a nw one? Q. 8.