A26892:5681
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.
And by this violence and destroying zeal of Orthodox Rulers, against the real faults and infirmities of some separating well meaning men, a far greater number of Heterodox Rulers, are encouraged to persecute the most learned, sober, and peaceable Ministers, and the most godly and faithful of their Subjects, who dare not conform to all their unrighteous Edicts, and Ecclesiastical Laws, in things forbidden by the Law of Christ: And all this is done upon pretence of promoting Unity and Peace, and suppressing Heresy and Schism. And so persecution becometh the Devils Engine to keep out the Gospel and Godliness from the Infidel world, and to keep them under in the Christian world.
And by this violence and destroying zeal of Orthodox Rulers, against the real faults and infirmities of some separating well meaning men, a far greater number of Heterodox Rulers, are encouraged to persecute the most learned, sober, and peaceable Ministers, and the most godly and faithful of their Subjects, who dare not conform to all their unrighteous Edicts, and Ecclesiastical Laws, in things forbidden by the Law of Christ: And all this is done upon pretence of promoting Unity and Peace, and suppressing Heresie and Schism. And so persecution becometh the Devils Engine to keep out the Gospel and Godliness from the Infidel world, and to keep them under in the Christian world.
Sed tamen sive illud (Orig•nis de Redemptione futura diabolorum) Error est, ut ego sentio; sive Haer•s•s ut putatur, non solum reprimi non potuit multis animadversionibus Sacerdotum, sed nequaquam tam late se p••uiss•t offundere, nisi contentione crevisset: inquit Posthumianus in Sulp. Severi Dialog. 1.