A26892:6093
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.
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.
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 preserred.
Obj. But who shall judge?
Answ. The Esse is before the Scire: The thing is first True or false before I judge it to be so: And therefore whoever judgeth falsely in a case so notorious and weighty, as that the welfare of the Church and souls is (consideratis considerandis) injured and hazarded by his error; is not be believed nor obeyed on pretence of order. Because all Christians have judicium discretionis, a discerning judgement.
Answ. The Esse is before the Scire: The thing is first True or false before I judge it to be so: And therefore whoever judgeth falsly in a case so notorious and weighty, as that the welfare of the Church and souls is (consideratis considerandis) injured and hazarded by his errour; is not be believed nor obeyed on pretence of order. Because all Christians have judicium discretionis, a discerning judgement.