A26892:5903
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.
3. And in their choice they ought to prefer him caeteris paribus, whose profession is most credible.
Obj. That which maketh a Minister is Gifts and a Calling, which are distinct from Grace and real Christianity.
Answ. Every Minister is a Christian, though every Christian be not a Minister or Pastor: Therefore he that is a Visible Pastor must Visibly or in Profession have both.
Obj. But a man may be a Christian without saving Grace or Godliness.
Answ. As much as he may be Godly without Godliness. That is, he may be Visibly a Christian and Godly, without sincere faith or Godliness, but not without the profession of both. It is not possible that the profession of Christianity in the Essentials, can be without the profession of Godliness: For it includeth it.