A26892:6005
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 17: Quest. 17. Wherein doth the Ministerial Office essentially consist?
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. The form of the Relation is denominated, 1. From the Reception of these Efficiencies in general▪ 2. From the subordination which hereby they are placed in to Christ, as their Relation is denominated a Termino.
1. Formally the Office consisteth in 1. An Obligation to do the work of the Office. 2. Authority to do it, and to oblige others to submit to it.
2. These make up an Office which being denominated also from the Terminus, is considered, 1. As to the nearest term, which is the work to be done. 2. The remote, which is the object of that work.1
- 12 T•m. 2. 2. & 3▪ 2. & 4. 11. & • 2, 3. 1 ••••ss. 5. 12, 13.
The work is 1. Teaching: 2. Ruling: 3. Worshipping. And so it is essentially [An Obligation and Power, of Ministerial Teaching, Ruling and Worshipping God.]