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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 5: Quest. 5. Whether we must hold that a Papist may be saved?
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.
Quest. 5. Whether we must hold that a Papist may be saved?
This question may be resolved easily from what is said before.
THis question may be resolved easily from what is said before.
1. A Papist as a Papist, that is, by Popery, will never be saved, no more than a mans life by a Leprosy.
1. A Papist as a Papist, that is, by Popery, will never be saved, no more than a mans life by a Leprosie.
2. If a Papist be saved, he must be saved against, and from Popery, either by turning from the opinion,1 and then he is no Papist, or by preserving his heart from the power of his own opinions. And the same we may say of every error and sin. He that is saved, must be saved from it, at least from the Power of it on the heart, and from the guilt of it by forgiveness.
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