A26892:6161
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.
This being touched on somewhere else, I only now say, 1. That if the case were my own, I would 1. Labour to know their different Powers, as to the matter commanded, and obey each in that which is proper to his place.
THis being toucht on somewhere else, I only now say, 1. That if the case were my own, I would 1. Labour to know their different Powers, as to the matter commanded, and obey each in that which is proper to his place.
2. If I were young and ignorant, Natural necessity, and natural obligation together, would give my Parents with whom I lived such an advantage above the Minister (whom I seldom see or understand) as would determine the case de eventu, and much de jure.
2. If I were young and ignorant, Natural necessity, and natural obligation together, would give my Parents with whom I lived such an advantage above the Minister (whom I seldome see or understand) as would determine the case de eventu, and much de jure.
3. If my Parents commanded me to hear a Teacher who is against Ceremonies or certain Forms, and to hear none that are for them, natural necessity here also (ordinarily) would make it my duty first to hear and obey my Parents: And in many other cases, till I came to understand the greater power of the Pastors, in their own place and work.