A26892:5847
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.
The case being thus stated, as to what is necessary to give the power or office, we may next enquire whether any Papists Priest have such Power, by such means.
And, 1. We have sufficient reason to judge that many of them have all the personal qualifications which are essentially necessary. 2. Many among them have the consent of a sober Christian people ⟨p. 776⟩(of which more anon.) And Mr. Jacob who was against Bishops and their Ordination, proveth at large, that by Election or Consent of the people alone, a man may be a true Pastor, either without such Ordination, or notwithstanding both the vanity and error of it. 3. Many of them have Ordination by able and sober Bishops: if that also be necessary. 4. In that Ordination, they are invested in all that is essential to the Pastoral Office.
And, 1. We have sufficient reason to judge that many of them have all the personal qualifications which are essentially necessary. 2. Many among them have the consent of a sober Christian people ⟨p. 776⟩(of which more anon.) And Mr. Iacob who was against Bishops and their Ordination, proveth at large, that by Election or Consent of the people alone, a man may be a true Pastor, either without such Ordination, or notwithstanding both the vanity and error of it. 3. Many of them have Ordination by able and sober Bishops: if that also be necessary. 4. In that Ordination, they are invested in all that is essential to the Pastoral Office.
So that I see not that their Calling is a Nullity through defect of any thing of absolute necessity to its being and validity: though it be many ways irregular and sinful.