A26892:1706
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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§. 16. Direct. 13. Be acquainted as fully as you can with the History of the Church, that you may 1know how the Gospel hath been planted, and propagated, and assaulted, and preserved until now: which will much better satisfy you, than general uncertain talk of others.
§. 16. Direct. 13. Be acquainted as fully as you can with the History of the Church, that you may 1know how the Gospel hath been planted, and propagated, and assaulted, and preserved until now: which will much better satisfie you, than general uncertain talk of others.
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§. 17. Direct. 14. Judge whether God being the Wise and Merciful Governor of the world would 12suffer the honestest and obedientest subjects that he hath upon earth, to be deceived in a matter of such importance, by pretence of Doctrines and Miracles proceeding from himself, and which none but God (or by his special grant) is able to do, without disowning them, or giving any sufficient means to the world to discover the deceit. For certainly he needeth not deceit to govern us. If you say that he permits Mohammedanism, I answer, 1. The main positive doctrine of the Mohammedans, for the worshipping of one only God against Idolatry, is true: And the by-fancies of their pretended Prophet are not commended to the world upon the pretence of attesting Miracles at all; but upon the affirmation of3 revelations without any credible seal or Divine attestation; and obtruded on the world by the power of the sword. 2. And God hath given the world sufficient preservatives against them, in the nullity of the proof of them, and the evident foppery of the writings and the things themselves. So that honesty and diligence will easily escape them.