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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
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Answ. The world hath long enough escaped the danger of Peace and Reconciliation: It had been well if they had as long escaped the danger of your Conceited-Orthodox strife, which hath brought in confusion and all evil works: I take it to be a Zeal effectively against Love, and against Unity, and against Christ, which with the Preachers of extremes, goeth under the name of a Zeal against Error, and for Truth.
Answ. The world hath long enough escaped the danger of Peace and Reconciliation: It had been well if they had as long escaped the danger of your Conceited-Orthodox strife, which hath brought in confusion and all evil works: I take it to be a Zeal effectively against Love, and against Unity, and against Christ, which with the Preachers of extreams, goeth under the name of a Zeal against Error, and for Truth.
Object. V. Are all these Numerous Directions to be found in Scripture? Show us them in Scripture, or you trouble the Church with your own inventions.
Object. V. Are all these Numerous Directions to be found in Scripture? Shew us them in Scripture, or you trouble the Church with your own inventions.
Answ. 1. Are all your Sermons, in the Scripture? And all the good Books of your Library in the Scripture? 2. Will you have none but Readers in the Church, and put down Preachers? Sure it is the Reader that delivereth all and only the Scripture. 3. Are we not Men before we are Christians? And is not the Light and Law of Nature, Divine? And was the ⟨image 5⟩Scripture written to be instead of Reason, or of a Logic, or other subservient Sciences? Or must they not all be sanctified and used for Divinity? 4. But I think that as all good Commentaries and Sermons, and Systems of Theology are in Scripture, so is the Directory here given, and is proved by the evidence of the very thing discoursed of, or by the plainest Texts.