A26892:2441
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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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.
§. 25. Direct. 12. Still keep the primitive fundamental verities in your mind, and see every other 1truth which you learn as springing out of them, and receiving their life and nourishment from them: And 2still keep in your minds a clear distinction between the Truths of several Degrees, both of Necessity, and Certainty, always reducing the less Necessary to the more Necessary, and the less certain to the more certain, and not contrarily.
§. 25. Direct. 12. Still keep the primitive fundamental verities in your mind, and see every other 1truth which you learn as springing out of them, and receiving their life and nourishment from them: And 2still keep in your minds a clear distinction between the Truths of several Degrees, both of Necessity, and Certainty, alwayes reducing the less Necessary to the more Necessary, and the less certain to the more certain, and not contrarily.
- 1Direct. 12.
- 2Read well Vincentius Lirinenc•sis.
§. 26. If God had made all points of faith, or Scripture revelation of equal necessity, our Baptism would not only have mentioned our Belief in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost: nor should we ever have seen the ancient Creed; nor the ten Commandments. And if all points were of equal Evidence, and plainness, and certainty to us, we should not have some so much controverted above others: Some things in Scripture are hard to be understood, but not all things,