A26892:6009
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.
2. As to the object it is, 1. The world to be Converted. 2. The Converted to be Baptized and Congregated ⟨p. 793⟩or ordered into particular Societies, (so far as may be). 3. The Baptized and Congregate, to be1 1. Taught, 2. Ruled, 3. Guided in Worship.
- 1Heb. 13. 7, 17▪ Acts 6. 4. Acts 9. 40. Acts 20. 36. Mal. 2. 7. Heb. 10. 11. Rev. 1. 6. & 5, 10. & 20. 6. • Pet. 2. 5, 6.
From all which resulteth an Office, which is Ministerially subordinate to Christ, as 1. The Prophet or Teacher 2. The Ruler, 3. The High Priest and Lover of his Church; And it may be aptly called both, a Teaching Ministry, a Ruling Ministry (not by the Sword, but by the Word) and a Priesthood or Priestly Ministry.
II. As the Pastor is related to the Church, he is 1. A Constitutive part of particular Political Churches: 2. He is Christs Minister for the Church and for Christ; that is, to Teach, Rule and Worship with