A26892:5957
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.
Quest. 13. Whether there be such a thing as a Visible Catholic Church? And what it is?
Quest. 13. Whether there be such a thing as a Visible Catholick Church? And what it is?
The Ancients differently used the terms [A Catholic Church] and [The Catholic Church]—By the first they meant any particular Church which was part of the Universal; By the second1 they meant the Universal Church it self. And this is it that we now mean. And I answer Affirmatively, There is a Visible Universal Church, not only as a Community, or as a Kingdom distinct from the King, but as a Political Society.
THe Antients differently used the terms [A Catholick Church] and [The Catholick Church]—By the first they meant any particular Church which was part of the Universal; By the second1 they meant the Universal Church it self. And this is it that we now mean. And I answer Affirmatively, There is a Visible Universal Church, not only as a Community, or as a Kingdom distinct from the King, but as a Political Society.
- 11 Cor. 12. 12. and throughout.