A26892:6026
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.
I. This is resolved on the by before. 1. Ordination performeth two things; 1. The designation, election or determination of the person who shall receive the Office: 2. The Ministerial Investiture of him in that office: which is a Ceremonial delivery of Possession; As a servant doth deliver possession of a house by delivering him the Key, who hath before received the power or Right from the Owner.
I. THis is resolved on the by before. 1. Ordination performeth two things; 1. The designation, election or determination of the person who shall receive the Office: 2. The Ministerial Investiture of him in that office: which is a Ceremonial delivery of Possession; As a servant doth deliver possession of a house by delivering him the Key, who hath before received the power or Right from the Owner.
2. The office delivered by this Election and Investiture, is the sacred Ministerial office in General to be after exercised according to particular Calls and opportunities; As Christ called the Apostles, and the Spirit called the ordinary general Teachers of those times; such as Barnabas, Silas, Silvanus, Timothy, Epaphroditus, Apollo, &c. And as is before cited, 2 Tim. 2. 2. As a man is made in General a Licensed Physician, Lawyer, &c.
2. The office delivered by this Election and Investiture, is the sacred Ministerial office in General to be after exercised according to particular Calls and opportunities; As Christ called the Apostles, and the Spirit called the ordinary general Teachers of those times; such as Barnabas, Silas, Silvanus, Timothy, Epaphroditus, Apollo, &c. And as is before cited, 2 Tim. 2. 2. As a man is made in General a Licensed Physicion, Lawyer, &c.