A26892:5827
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.
1. To affirm the Church of Rome to be [the Catholic or Universal Church,] is more than to affirm it to be [a true Catholic Church] that is, a true part of the Catholic Church; and is as much as to say that it is the whole and only Church, and that there is no other; which is odious falsehood and usurpation, and slander against all other Churches.
1. To affirm the Church of Rome to be [the Catholick or Universal Church,] is more than to affirm it to be [a true Catholick Church] that is, a true part of the Catholick Church; and is as much as to say that it is the whole and only Church, and that there is no other; which is odious falshood and usurpation, and slander against all other Churches.
2. The Church of Rome is so called in the Question, as it is a Policy or Church in a general sense; And the meaning of the Question is, Whether it be a Divine or a Humane or Diabolical Policy; A Lawful Church.
3. The Church of Rome is considered, 1. Formally, as a Church or Policy, 2. Materially as the singular persons are qualified. It is the Form that denominateth. Therefore the Question must be taken of the Roman Policy, or of the Church of Rome as such; that is, As it is one Ruler pretending to be the 1Vicarious constitutive Governing Head of all Christs Visible Church on earth, and the Body which owneth him in this Relation.
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