A26892:5966
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.
4. It ill becometh the Papists of any men, to say that Christ is not visible, who make him, see him, taste him, handle him, eat him, drink him, digest him, in every Church, in every Mass throughout the year, and throughout the world: And this not as divided, but as whole Christ.
Object. But this is not quatenus Regent.
Answ. If you see him that is Regent, and see his Laws and Gospel which are his Governing instruments, together with his Ministers who are his Officers, it is enough to denominate his Kingdom visible.
5. The Church might be fitly denominated Visible secundum quid, if Christ himself were invisible; Because the Politic Body is visible, the dispersed Officers, Assemblies and Laws are visible. But sure all these together may well serve for the denomination.
5. The Church might be fitly denominated Visible secundum quid, if Christ himself were invisible; Because the Politick Body is visible, the dispersed Officers, Assemblies and Laws are visible. But sure all these together may well serve for the denomination.