A26892:5593
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.
§. 41. 16. If a Lawful Prince or Magistrate command us to remove our habitation, or command a Minister from one Church to another, when it is not notoriously to the detriment of the common interest of Religion, it is no sinful separation to obey the Magistrate.
§. 42. 17. If a poor Christian that hath a due and tender care of his salvation, do find that under one Minister his soul declineth and groweth dead, and under another that is more sound, and clear, and lively he is much edified to a holy and heavenly frame and life, and if hereupon, preferring his salvation before all things he remove to that Church and Minister where he is most edified, without unchurching the other by his censures, this is no sinful separation, but a preferring the One thing needful before all.
§. 43. 18. If one part of the Church have leisure, opportunity, cause and earnest desires to meet oftener for the edifying of their souls, and redeeming their time, than the poorer, labouring, or careless and less zealous part will meet, in any fit place, under the oversight and conduct of their Pastors, and not in opposition to the more public full assemblies, as they did, Acts 12. 12. to pray for Peter at the house of Mary, where many were gathered together praying; and Acts 10. 1, &c. this is no sinful separation.
§. 43. 18. If one part of the Church have leisure, opportunity, cause and earnest desires to meet ofter for the edifying of their souls, and redeeming their time, than the poorer, labouring, or careless and less zealous part will meet, in any fit place, under the oversight and conduct of their Pastors, and not in opposition to the more publick full assemblies, as they did,