A26892:6106
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.
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.
5. No man is the Bishop of a Diocese as to the measure of ground, or the place, by divine right, that is, by any particular Law or determination of God: But only a Bishop of the Church or people: For your office essentially containeth a Relation to the People, but Accidentally only to the Place.
5. No man is the Bishop of a Diocess as to the measure of ground, or the place, by divine right, that is, by any particular Law or determination of God: But only a Bishop of the Church or people: For your office essentially containeth a Relation to the People, but Accidentally only to the Place.
6. Yet natural Convenience, and Gods General Laws of Order and Edification, do make it usually (but not always) best, and therefore a duty, to distinguish Churches by the peoples habitation: Not taking a man for a Member eo nomine, because he liveth on that ground; But for order sake taking none for members that live not on that ground; and not intruding causelessly into each others bounds.
6. Yet natural Convenience, and Gods General Laws of Order and Edification, do make it usually (but not alwayes) best, and therefore a duty, to distinguish Churches by the peoples habitation: Not taking a man for a Member eo nomine, because he liveth on that ground; But for order sake taking none for members that live not on that ground; and not intruding causelesly into each others bounds.