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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
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7. It is also a Ministerial duty to instruct the people personally, and watch over them, at other times, Acts 20. 20, 28. And to be examples of the flock, 1 Pet. 5. 1, 2, 3. To have the Rule over the people, and labour among them, and admonish them, 1 Thess. 5. 12. Heb. 13. 7, 17. 1 Tim. 5. 17. To exercise holy discipline among them, Titus 3. 10. Matth. 18. 17, 18. 1 Cor. 5. To visit the sick and pray over them, James 5. 14. Yea, to take care of the poor. See▪ Dr. Hammond on 1 Cor. 12. 28. And all this cannot possibly be well done by uncertain transient Ministers, but only by a resident stated Pastor, no more than transient strangers can rule all our families, or all the Christian Kingdoms of the world.
7. It is also a Ministerial duty to instruct the people personally, and watch over them, at other times, Acts 20. 20, 28. And to be examples of the flock, 1 Pet. 5. 1, 2, 3. To have the Rule over the people, and labour among them, and admonish them, 1 Thess. 5. 12. Heb. 13. 7, 17.