A26892:6169
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. But this is not to be a Disciple to him as in lower Order or Office, but as of lower Gifts and Grace.
5. It is lawful and very good for the Church, that some Ordained persons continue long as Pupils to their Tutors in Schools or Academies, (e. g. to learn the holy Languages, if they have them not, &c.) But this is a relation left to voluntary Contractors.
6. In the ancient Churches the particular Churches had one Bishop and some Presbyters and Deacons, usually of much lower parts, who lived all together (single or chaste) in the Bishops or Church-house, which was as a College, where he daily edified them by Doctrine and Example.
6. In the antient Churches the particular Churches had one Bishop and some Presbyters and Deacons, usually of much lower parts, who lived all together (single or chaste) in the Bishops or Church-house, which was as a Colledge, where he daily edified them by Doctrine and Example.
7. The Controversy about different Orders by Divine Institution, belongeth not to me here to meddle with: But as to the Natural and Acquired Imparity of age and gifts, and the unspeakable benefit to the Juniors and the Churches that it is desirable that there were such a way of their education and edification, I take to be discernible to any that is impartial and judicious.