A26892:5883
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.
2. And we must distinguish much of persons, whether they be Ministers or people, free or bound, as Wives, Children, &c. And now I answer.
1. There is no question but it is a duty to judge all that evil which is evil, among the Papists or any other.
2. It is the duty of all to forbear subscribing, swearing to, or otherwise approving evil.
3. It is the duty of all Mass-Priests to renounce that part of their calling, and not to administer their Mass, or any other unlawful thing.
4. It is the duty of all private Christians to forbear communion in the Mass, because it is a kind of Idolatry, while they worship a piece of Bread as God: As also Image-Worship and all other parts of their Religion, in which they are put upon sin themselves, or that which is notorious scandal and symbolizing with them in their Bread-worship, or other corruptions of the substance of Gods Ordinances.