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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.
Quest. 20. Is Ordination necessary to make a man a Pastor of a particular Church as such? And is he to be made a General Minister and a particular-Church-Elder or Pastor at once, and by one Ordination?
I Have proved that a man may be made a Minister in general, yea and sent to exercise it in Converting Infidels, and baptizing them, before ever he is the Pastor of any particular Church. To which I add, that in this General Ministry, he is a Pastor in the universal Church, as a Licensed Physician that hath no Hospital or Charge, is a Physician in the Kingdom.
I Have proved that a man may be made a Minister in general, yea and sent to exercise it in Converting Infidels, and baptizing them, before ever he is the Pastor of any particular Church. To which I add, that in this General Ministry, he is a Pastor in the universal Church, as a Licensed Physicion that hath no Hospital or Charge, is a Physicion in the Kingdom.
And, 1. As Baptism is as such our Entrance into the universal Church, and not into a particular; so is Ordination to a Minister an entrance only on the Ministry as such.
And, 1. As Baptism is as such our Enterance into the universal Church, and not into a particular; so is Ordination to a Minister an enterance only on the Ministry as such.