A26892:1740
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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9. But our obligation now to believe the same Scripture Prophecies is greater; because we live in the ages when most of them are fulfilled, and the rest are attested by Christ and his Apostles who proved their attestations by manifold Miracles.
9. But our obligation now to believe the same Scripture Prophecies is greater; because we live in the ages when most of them are fullfilled, and the rest are attested by Christ and his Apostles who proved their attestations by manifold Miracles.
10. When the Prophets reproved the known sins of the people, and called men to such duties as the Law required, no man could speed ill by obeying such a Prophet; because the Matter of his Prophecies was found in Gods own Law, which must of necessity be obeyed. And this is the chief part of the recorded Prophecies.
11. And any man that spake against any part of Gods Law (of natural or super-natural revelation) was not to be believed, Deut. 13. & 18. Because God cannot speak contrary to himself.
12. But the Prophets themselves had another kind of obligation to believe their own Visions and Inspirations, than any of their hearers had: For Gods great extraordinary Revelation, was like the Light, which immediately revealed it self, and constrained the understanding to know that it was of God: And such were the Revelations that came by Angelical apparitions, and Visions. Therefore Prophets themselves might be bound to more, than their bare word could have bound their hearers to. As to wound themselves, to go bare, to feed on dung, &c. And this was Abraham's case in offering Isaac. Yet God did never command a Prophet, or any by a Prophet, a thing simply evil, but only such things as were of a mutable nature, and which his will could alter, and make to be good. And such was the case of Abraham himself, if well considered.