A26892:6529
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.
Part 3 › Question 56: Quest. 56. Is any Form of Church Government of Divine Institution
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.
1. It is of the Law of Nature, that God be publicly worshipped as most Expositors of the fourth Commandment do confess.
1. It is of the Law of Nature, that God be publickly worshipped as most Expositors of the fourth Commandment do confess.
2. It is of the Law of Nature that the people be taught to know God and their duty, by such as are able and fit to teach them.
3. The Law of Nature requireth, that man being a sociable creature, and conjunction working strongest affections, we should use our sociableness in the greatest matters, and by conjunction help the zeal of our prayers and praises of God.
4. Gods institution of public Preaching, Prayer and Praise, are scarce denied by any Christians.
4. Gods institution of publick Preaching, Prayer and Praise, are scarce denyed by any Christians.