A26892:6151
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.
6. For all the people as Reasonable creatures, have a judgement of private discerning to judge what they must Receive as Truth, and to discern their own duty, by the help of the Word of God, and of their Teachers.
7. The same power of Governing-Judgement Lawful Synods have over their several flocks, as a Pastor over his own, but with greater advantage.
7. The same power of Governing-Iudgement Lawful Synods have over their several flocks, as a Pastor over his own, but with greater advantage.
8. The power of Judging in many Consociate Churches, who is to be taken into Communion as Orthodox, and who to be refused by those Churches as Heretics, in specie, that is, what Doctrine they will judge sound or unsound, as it is Judicium discernendi; belongeth to every one of the Council •ingly: As it is a Judgement obliging themselves by Contract, (and not of Governing each other) it is in the Contractors and Consenters: And for peace and order usually in the Major Vote. But with the Limitations before expressed.
8. The power of Judging in many Consociate Churches, who is to be taken into Communion as Orthodox, and who to be refused by those Churches as Hereticks, in specie, that is, what Doctrine they will judge sound or unsound, as it is Iudicium discernendi; belongeth to every one of the Council •ingly: As it is a Iudgement obliging themselves by Contract, (and not of Governing each other) it is in the Contracters and Consenters: And for peace and order usually in the Major Vote. But with the Limitations before expressed.