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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.
Part 3 › Question 1: CASES OF CONSCIENCE ABOUT Matters Ecclesiastical.
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.
Prop. 8. The Reformed Churches, the Lutherans, the Abassines, the Copts, the Syrians, the Armenians,1 the Jacobites, the Georgians, the Maronites, the Greeks, the Muscovites, and the Romanists, do all receive Baptism in all its visible Essentials, and profess all the Essentials of the Christian Religion, though not with the same Integrity.
Prop. 8. The Reformed Churches, the Lutherans, the Abassines, the Copties, the Syrians, the Armenians,1 the Jacobites, the Georgians, the Maronites, the Greeks, the Moscovites, and the Romanists, do all receive Baptism in all its visible Essentials, and profess all the Essentials of the Christian Religion, though not with the same Integrity.
Prop. 9. He that denieth any one essential part, in it self, is so a Heretic as to be no Christian, nor true member of the Church, if it be justly proved, or notorious; that is, none ought to take him1 for a Visible Christian, who know the proof of his denying that essential part of Christianity, or to whom it is notorious.
Prop. 9. He that denyeth any one essential part, in it self, is so a Heretick as to be no Christian, nor true member of the Church, if it be justly proved, or notorious; that is, none ought to take him1 for a Visible Christian, who know the proof of his denying that essential part of Christianity, or to whom it is notorious.