A26892:6486
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. 52. Whether the Universal Church consist only of particular Churches and their members?
Answ. NO: Particular Churches are the most Regular and noble parts of the Universal Church; but not the whole: no more than Cities and Corporations be all the Kingdom. 1. Some may be as the Eunuch baptized before they can come to any particular Church; or as1 Paul, before they can be received.
2. Some may live where Church-tyranny hindereth them, by sinful impositions; As all that live among the Papists.
3. Some may live in times of doubting, distraction and confusion, and not know what Church ordinarily to join with, and may providently go promiscuously to many, and keep in an unfixed state for a time.
3. Some may live in times of doubting, distraction and confusion, and not know what Church ordinarily to joyn with, and may providently go promiscuously to many, and keep in an unfixed state for a time.