A26892:6095
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.
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.
3. But if the case be not thus to be determined by the persons notorious qualifications, then either it is, 1. The man ordained, 2. Or the People that the case is debated by, whether they should take him for a Minister; 3. Or the neighbour Ministers.
1. The person himself is caeteris paribus more to regard the judgement of many concordant Bishops, than of one singular Bishop; And therefore is not to take orders from a singular Bishop, when the Generality of the wise and faithful are against it; unless he be sure that it is some notorious faction or error that perverteth them, and that there be notorious necessity of his labour.
1. The person himself is caeteris paribus more to regard the judgement of many concordant Bishops, than of one singular Bishop; And therefore is not to take orders from a singular Bishop, when the Generality of the wise and faithful are against it; unless he be sure that it is some notorious faction or errour that perverteth them, and that there be notorious necessity of his labour.