A26892:6032
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.
3. None else are fit to attend this work, but Pastors who are separated to the sacred office. It requireth1 more time to get fitness for it, and then to perform it faithfully, than either Magistrates or people can ordinarily bestow.
4. The power is no where given by Christ to Magistrates or people.
5. It hath been exercised by Pastors or Church-officers only both in, and ever since the Apostles days, in all the Churches of the World. And we have no reason to think that the Church hath been gathered ⟨p. 795⟩from the begin•••• till now, by so great an error, as a wrong conveyance of the Ministerial power.
5. It hath been exercised by Pastors or Church-officers only both in, and ever since the Apostles dayes, in all the Chu•ches of the World. And we have no reason to think that the Church hath been gathered ⟨p. 795⟩from the begin•••• till now, by so great an errour, as a wrong conveyance of the Ministerial power.