A26892:5527
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.
§▪ 26. Direct. 15. Take not obscure Prophecies for Precepts: The obscurity is enough to make1 you cautelous how you venture your self in the Practice of that which you understand not; But if there were no obscurity, yet Prophecies are no warrant to you to fulfil them; no though they be for the Churches good. Predictions tell you but de eventu what will come to pass, but warrant not you to bring it to pass: Gods Prophesies are oft-times fulfilled by the wickedest men, and the wickedest means. As by the Jews in killing Christ, and Pharaoh in refusing to let Israel go, and Jehu in punishing the house of Ahab. Yet many self-conceited persons think that they can fetch that out of the Revelations or the Prophecies of Daniel, that will justify very horrid crimes, while they use wicked means to fulfil Gods Prophecies.
§▪ 26. Direct. 15. Take not obscure Prophecies for Precepts: The obscurity is enough to make1 you cautelous how you venture your self in the Practice of that which you understand not; But if there were no obscurity, yet Prophecies are no warrant to you to fulfill them; no though they be for the Churches good. Predictions tell you but de eventu what will come to pass, but warrant not you to bring it to pass: Gods Prophesies are oft-times fulfilled by the wickedest men, and the wickedest means. As by the Jews in killing Christ, and Pharaoh in refusing to let Israel go, and Iehu in punishing the house of Ahab. Yet many self-conceited persons think that they can fetch that out of the Revelations or the Prophecies of Daniel, that will justifie very horrid crimes, while they use wicked means to fulfil Gods Prophecies.
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§. 27. Direct. 16. Be very cautelous in what cases you take mens practice or example to be instead of