A26892:6089
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. 23. What if one Bishop ordain a Minister, and three or many or all the rest protest against it, and declare him no Minister, or degrade him? Is he to be received as a true Minister or not?
Supposing that the person want no necessary personal Qualification for the office, There are two things more in question; 1. His Office whether he be a Minister. 2. His Regularity, whether he came Regularly to it; and also his Comparative relation, whether this man or another is to be preferred. I answer therefore.
SUpposing that the person want no necessary personal Qualification for the office, There are two things more in question; 1. His Office whether he be a Minister. 2. His Regularity, whether he came Regularly to it; and also his Comparative relation, whether this man or another is to be preferred. I answer therefore.
1. If the person be utterly uncapable, the one Bishop or the many whosoever taketh him for uncapable, is for the Truth sake to be believed and obeyed.
2. If the man be excellently qualified, and his Ministry greatly Necessary to the Church, whoever would deprive the Church of him be it the One or the Many, is to be disobeyed, and the ordainers preferred.