A26892:6495
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. 53. Must the Pastor first Call the Church, and aggregate them to himself, or the Church first Congregate themselves, and then choose the Pastor?
Answ. The Pastors are in order of Nature, if not in time, first Ministers of Christ in general, before they are related to a particular Charge.
Answ. THe Pastors are in order of Nature, if not in time, first Ministers of Christ in general, before they are related to a particular Charge.
2. As such Ministers they first make men fit to be congregate, and tell them their duty therein.
3. But it is a matter variable and indifferent, Whether the Minister first say, [All that will join with me, and submit to me as their Pastor, shall be my particular Charge]: Or the people before Congregated do call a man to be their Pastor.
3. But it is a matter variable and indifferent, Whether the Minister first say, [All that will joyn with me, and submit to me as their Pastor, shall be my particular Charge]: Or the people before Congregated do call a man to be their Pastor.