A26892:2472
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.
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.
§. 55. Inst. 17. Thus many separate Universal or Catholic Union and Communion from particular. 1And some understand no Communion but the Universal, and some none but the particular. Some say we separate from them as to Catholic Communion, if we hold not local particular Communion with them; yea, if we join not with them in every mode! As if I could be personally in ten thousand thousand Congregations at once, or else did separate from them all! Or as if I separated from all mankind, if I differed from all men in my visage or complexion? Or as if I cannot be absent from many thousand Churches, and yet honour them as true Churches of Christ, and hold Catholic communion with them in Faith, Hope and Love! Yea, though I durst not join with them personally in Worship for fear of some sinful condition which they impose! Or as if I need not be a member of any ordered worshipping Congregation, because I have a Catholic faith and Love to all the Christians in the world!
§. 55. Inst. 17. Thus many separate Universal or Catholick Union and Communion from particular. 1And some understand no Communion but the Universal, and some none but the particular. Some say we separate from them as to Catholick Communion, if we hold not local particular Communion with them; yea, if we joyn not with them in every mode! As if I could be personally in ten thousand thousand Congregations at once, or else did separate from them all! Or as if I separated from all mankind, if I differed from all men in my visage or complexion? Or as if I cannot be absent from many thousand Churches, and yet honour them as true Churches of Christ, and hold Catholick communion with them in Faith, Hope and Love! Yea, though I durst not joyn with them personally in Worship for fear of some sinful condition which they impose! Or as if I need not be a member of any ordered worshipping Congregation, because I have a Catholick faith and Love to all the Christians in the world!
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