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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.
2. He that is no Pastor of a particular Church, may be a Pastor in the universal, obliged as a consecrated person to endeavour its good, by the works of his office, as he hath particular opportunity and call.
3. Yet he that hath a particular charge is specially and nearlier related and obliged to that charge or Church, than to any other part of the universal (though not then to the whole:) And consequently hath a peculiar Authority, where he hath a peculiar obligation and work.
3. Yet he that hath a particular charge is specially and neerlyer related and obliged to that charge or Church, than to any other part of the universal (though not then to the whole:) And consequently hath a peculiar Authority, where he hath a peculiar obligation and work.
4. He that is (without degrading) removed from a particular Church doth not cease to be a General Minister and Pastor related to the Universal Church; As a Physician put out of a Hospital charge, is a Physician still. And therefore he needeth no new ordination, but only a special Designation, to his next particular charge.
4. He that is (without degrading) removed from a particular Church doth not cease to be a General Minister and Pastor related to the Universal Church; As a Physicion put out of a Hospital charge, is a Physicion still. And therefore he needeth no new ordination, but only a special Designation, to his next particular charge.