A Christian Directory

Name: A Christian Directory
Author: Richard Baxter

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.

Richard Baxter 1615–1691London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1673

[35], 929, [5], 214 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. · 1.2M words · Wing B1219 · ESTC R21847

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Part 3 › Question 1: CASES OF CONSCIENCE ABOUT Matters Ecclesiastical.

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Prop. 23. There are thousands of these in the world, and a man may be saved in one, as well as in another: Only the purest give him the best advantages for his salvation; And therefore should be preferred by all that are wise and love their souls, so far as they are free to choose their Communion.

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Prop. 24. The case then being easily resolved [which is the true Church]? viz. All Christians ¹as Christians are the Catholic or Universal Church? and All Congregations afore described, of² true Pastors and Christians being particular true Churches, differing only in degrees of purity, he is to be suspected as a designing deceiver and troubler of the world, that pretending to be a Learned man and a Teacher, doth still perplex the Consciences of the ignorant with this frivolous question, and would muddy and obscure this clear state of the case, lest the people should rest in the discerned truth.

Prop. 24. The case then being easily resolved [which is the true Church]? viz. All Christians ¹as Christians are the Catholick or Universal Church? and All Congregations afore described, of² true Pastors and Christians being particular true Churches, differing only in degrees of purity, he is to be suspected as a designing deceiver and troubler of the world, that pretending to be a Learned man and a Teacher, doth still perplex the Consciences of the ignorant with this frivolous question, and would muddy and obscure this clear state of the case, lest the people should rest in the discerned truth.

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A Christian Directory

Quest. 2. Whether we must esteem the Church of Rome a true Church? And in what sense some Divines affirm it, and some deny it.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

Quest. 2. Whether we must esteem the Church of Rome a true Church? And in what sense some Divines affirm it, and some deny it.

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