A26892:6563
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.
11. There seemeth to me no readier and directer way, to reduce the Churches to holy Concord, and true reformation, than for the Princes and Magistrates who are the extrinsic Rulers, to re-assume their own, and to distinguish openly and practically between the properly-Priestly or Pastoral intrinsic Office, and their extrinsic part, and to strip the Pastors of all that is not Intrinseeally their own (It being enough for them, and things so heterogeneous not well consisting in one person): And then when the people know what is claimed as from the Magistrate only, it will take off most of their scruples as to subjection and consent.
11. There seemeth to me no readier and directer way, to reduce the Churches to holy Concord, and true reformation, than for the Princes and Magistrates who are the extrinsick Rulers, to re-assume their own, and to distinguish openly and practically between the properly-Priestly or Pastoral intrinsick Office, and their extrinsick part, and to strip the Pastors of all that is not Intrinseeally their own (It being enough for them, and things so heterogeneous not well consisting in one person): And then when the people know what is claimed as from the Magistrate only, it will take off most of their scruples as to subjection and consent.
12. No mortal man may abrogate or take down the Pastoral Office, and the Intrinsic real power thereof, and the Church-form which is constituted thereby; seeing God hath instituted them for perpetuity on earth.
12. No mortal man may abrogate or take down the Pastoral Office, and the Intrinsick real power thereof, and the Church-form which is constituted thereby; seeing God hath instituted them for perpetuity on earth.
13. But whether one Church shall have one Pastor or many is not at all of the Form of a particular Church: but it is of the Integrity or gradual perfection of such Churches as need many, to have many, and to others not so: Not that it is left merely to the will of man, but is to be varied as natural necessity and cause requireth.