A26892:5675
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.
§. 109. I know there are some, that with too bloody and calamitous success, have in most ages, given other kind of Directions, for the extirpation of Error, Heresy and Schism, than I have here given! But God hath still caused the most wise, and holy, and charitable, and experienced Christians1 to bear their testimony against them! And he hath ever caused their way of cruelty to turn to their own shame: And though (like Treasons and Robberies) it seem for the time present to serve their ⟨p. 752⟩turn, it is bitterness in the end, and leaveth a stinking memorial of their names and actions to posterity. And the Treatises of Reconcilers (such as our Halls, Ushers, Bergius, Burroughs and many other) by the delectable savour of Unity and Charity are sweet and acceptable to prudent and pea•• able persons, though usually unsuccessful with the violent that needed them.
§. 109. I know there are some, that with too bloody and calamitous success, have in most ages, given other kind of Directions, for the extirpation of Error, Heresie and Schism, than I have here given! But God hath still caused the most wise, and holy, and charitable, and experienced Christians1 to bear their testimony against them! And he hath ever caused their way of cruelty to turn to their own shame: And though (like Treasons and Robberies) it seem for the time present to serve their ⟨p. 752⟩turn, it is bitterness in the end, and leaveth a stinking memorial of their names and actions to posterity. And the Treatises of Reconcilers (such as our Halls, Ushers, Bergius, Burroughs and many other) by the delectable savour of Unity and Charity are sweet and acceptable to prudent and pea•• able persons, though usually unsuccessful with the violent that needed them.
- 1B••a Hist. Ec•ls ib. 1. cap. 26. Didicerat enim (Rex Edilberth) & a Doctoribut, auctoribusque suae salutis, servitium Christi voluntarium, non coactitium debee esse.