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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. 25. The Papal Church as such, being no true Church of Christs institution (of which by it self anon) it followeth that a Papist as a Papist is no member of the Church of Christ, that is,1 no Christian. But yet whether the same person may not be a Papist and a Christian, and so a member of the Catholic Church, we shall anon enquire.
Prop. 25. The Papal Church as such, being no true Church of Christs institution (of which by it self anon) it followeth that a Papist as a Papist is no member of the Church of Christ, that is,1 no Christian. But yet whether the same person may not be a Papist and a Christian, and so a member of the Catholick Church, we shall anon enquire.
Prop. 26. There are many things which go to make up the fitness and desirableness of that particular1 Church, which we should prefer or choose for our ordinary personal Communion: As, 1. That it be the Church of that place where we dwell; If the place be so happy as to have no divided Churches, that it be the sole Church there; However that it be so neer•• to be fit for our Communion. 2. That it be a Church which holdeth Communion with other neighbour Churches, and is not singular or divided from them; Or at least not from the Generality of the Churches of Christ; nor2