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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.
6. But as fewer that have Leprosies, or Plagues, or that take poison scape, than of other men, so we have great cause to believe, that much fewer Papists are saved, than such as escape their errors. And therefore all that love their souls should avoid them.
6. But as fewer that have Leprosies, or Plagues, or that take poyson scape, than of other men, so we have great cause to believe, that much fewer Papists are saved, than such as escape their errors. And therefore all that love their souls should avoid them.
7. And the trick of the Priests who persuade people that theirs is the safest Religion, because we say that a Papist may be saved, and they say that a Protestant cannot, is so palpable a cheat, that it should rather debtor men from their way. For God is Love, and he that dwelleth in Love dwelleth in God: And all men must know us to be Christs Disciples, by loving one another; And he that saith he loveth God, and loveth not his Brother, is a liar: And charity believeth all things, credible: That Religion is likest to be of God which is most charitable, and not that which is most uncharitable, and malicious, and like to Satan.
7. And the trick of the Priests who perswade people that theirs is the safest Religion, because we say that a Papist may be saved, and they say that a Protestant cannot, is so palpable a cheat, that it should rather deterr men from their way. For God is Love, and he that dwelleth in Love dwelleth in God: And all men must know us to be Christs Disciples, by loving one another; And he that saith he loveth God, and loveth not his Brother, is a lyar: And charity believeth all things, credible: That Religion is likest to be of God which is most charitable, and not that which is most uncharitable, and malicious, and like to Satan.