A26892:5825
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.
Want of some easy distinguishing hath made that seem a Controversy here, which is so plain,1 that it can hardly be any at all to Protestants, if the question had been but truly stated.
WAnt of some easie distinguishing hath made that seem a Controversie here, which is so plain,1 that it can hardly be any at all to Protestants, if the question had been but truly stated.
- 1•••• Mr. Bur[…] •nd […]'s contest hereabout.•••• Mr. Bur〈…〉 •nd 〈…〉's contest hereabout.
Remember therefore that by a Church is meant, not a mere company of Christians, any how related to each other; but a society consisting of an Ecclesiastical Head and Body, such as we call a Political society. 2. And that we speak not of an Accidental Head (such as the King is, because he Governeth them suo modo by the sword): for that is not an Essential Constitutive Part: But of a Constit•tive Ecclesiastical Head and body. 3. That the question is not, Whether the Church of Rome, be a Part of the Church, but whether it be a true Church. And now I answer;
Remember therefore that by a Church is meant, not a meer company of Christians, any how related to each other; but a society consisting of an Ecclesiastical Head and Body, such as we call a Political society. 2. And that we speak not of an Accidental Head (such as the King is, because he Governeth them suo modo by the sword): for that is not an Essential Constitutive Part: But of a Constittive Ecclesiastical Head and body. 3. That the question is not, Whether the Church of Rome, be a Part of the Church, but whether it be a true Church. And now I answer;