A26892:6164
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.
Quest. 30. May an Office Teacher or Pastor be at once, in a stated Relation of a Pastor and a Disciple to some other Pastor?
1. That Timothy was still Pauls Son in point of Learning and his Disciple, and so that under Apostles the same persons might be stated in both relations at once, seemeth evident in Scripture.
1. THat Timothy was still Pauls Son in point of Learning and his Disciple, and so that under Apostles the same persons might be stated in both relations at once, seemeth evident in Scripture.
2. But the same that is a Pastor is not at once a mere Lay-man.
2. But the same that is a Pastor is not at once a meer Lay-man.
3. That men in the same Office may so differ in Age, Experience, and degrees of knowledge as that young Pastors may and often ought, many years to continue, not only in occasional reception of their help, but also in an ordinary stated way of receiving it, and so be Related to them as their ordinary Teachers, by such gradual advantages, is past all doubt. And that all Juniors and Novices owe a certain reverence and audience, and some obedience to the elder and wiser.