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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
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.
Direct. 11. I Et not your first Opinions about the controverted difficulties in Religion, (where Scripture1 is not very plain) be too peremptory, confident or fixed: But hold them modestly, with […] your un•ipe understandings, and with room for further information, supposing it possible […], that upon better instruction evidence and maturity, you may, in such things, change your minds.
Direct. 11. I Et not your first Opinions about the controverted difficulties in Religion, (where Scripture1 is not very plain) be too peremptory, confident or fixed: But hold them modestly, with 〈…〉 your un•ipe understandings, and with room for further information, supposing it possible 〈…〉, that upon better instruction evidence and maturity, you may, in such things, change y•ur minds.
- 1Direct. 11. For Modesty in your first Opinions.
§. 1. I know the factions that take up their Religion on the credit of their party, are against this Direction: thinking that you must first hit on the right Church, and then hold all that the Church doth hold; and therefore change your mind in nothing, which you this way receive. I know also that some Libertines and half-believers, would corrupt this Direction, by extending it to the most plain and necessary truths; persuading you to hold Christianity it self, but as an uncertain probable Opinion.
§. 1. I know the factions that take up their Religion on the credit of their party, are against this Direction: thinking that you must first hit on the right Church, and then hold all that the Church doth hold; and therefore change your mind in nothing, which you this way receive. I know also that some Libertines and half-believers, would corrupt this Direction, by extending it to the most plain and necessary truths; perswading you to hold Christianity it self, but as an uncertain probable Opinion.