A26892:6561
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.
And further 1. That in sacred things that which is of Divine and primary institution is the famosius analogatum, and not that which is but formed by man. 2. That when such an ambiguous word is used without explication or explicating circumstances, it is to be taken for the famosius analogatum. 3. That in this case the word Church or Church-form is certainly ambiguous and not univocal. 4. That • National, Imperial, or Provincial Church as Headed by a King, Emperor, Magistrate, or any head of mans appointment, is another thing, from a Church of Christs institution: and is but an Accident or adjunct of it; and the Head of the Humane form, if called the Head of the Church of Christ, is but an Accidental Head, and not Constitutive. And if Christs Churches be denominated from such a Head, they are denominated but from an accident, as a man may be denominated clothed or unclothed, clothed gorgeously or sordidly, a neighbour to this man or that, &c. It is no formal denomination of a Church in the first acception, as it signifieth the famosius analogatum; though otherwise many kind of societies may be called Ecclesiae or Coetus: But Divines should not love confusion.
And further 1. That in sacred things that which is of Divine and primary institution is the famosius analogatum, and not that which is but formed by man. 2. That when such an ambiguous word is used without explication or explicating circumstances, it is to be taken for the famosius analogatum. 3. That in this case the word Church or Church-form is certainly ambiguous and not univocal. 4. That • National, Imperial, or Provincial Church as Headed by a King, Emperour, Magistrate, or any head of mans appointment, is another thing, from a Church of Christs institution: and is but an Accident or adjunct of it; and the Head of the Humane form, if called the Head of the Church of Christ, is but an Accidental Head, and not Constitutive. And if Christs Churches be denominated from such a Head, they are denominated but from an accident, as a man may be denominated cloathed or uncloathed, cloathed gorgeously or sordidly, a neighbour to this man or that, &c. It is no formal denomination of a Church in the first acception, as it signifieth the famosius analogatum; though otherwise many kind of societies may be called Ecclesiae or Coetus: But Divines should not love confusion.