A26892:6138
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.
II. To the latter Question I answer, 1. To set up such an Universal Head on the supposition of natural Reasons and Humane Policy is, 1. To cross Christs Institution, and the Laws of the Holy Ghost, as hath been long proved by Protestants from the Scripture.
2. It is Treason against Christs Sovereign Office to usurp such a Vicegerency without his Commission.
2. It is Treason against Christs Soveraign Office to usurp such a Vicegerency without his Commission.
3. It is against the notorious light of Nature, which telleth us of the Natural Incapacity of Mortal man, to be such an Universal Governor through the world.
3. It is against the notorious light of Nature, which telleth us of the Natural Incapacity of Mortal man, to be such an Universal Governour through the world.
4. It is to sin against long, and dreadful common experience, and to keep in that fire that hath destroyed Emperors, Kings and Kingdoms, and set the Churches Pastors and Christian world in those divisions, which are the great and serviceable work of Satan, and the impediment of the Churches increase, purity and peace, and the notorious shame of the Christian profession in the eyes of the Infidel world.