A26892:6568
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.
16. Indeed no man can here make a new Church Officer of this Intrinsic sort without making him new work, which is to make new Doctrine, or new Worship (which are forbidden): For to do1 Gods work already made belongs to the Office already instituted. If every King will make his own Officers, or authorize the greater to make the less, none must presume to make Christ Officers and Churches without his Commission.
16. Indeed no man can here make a new Church Officer of this Intrinsick sort without making him new work, which is to make new Doctrine, or new Worship (which are forbidden): For to do1 Gods work already made belongs to the Office already instituted. If every King will make his own Officers, or authorize the greater to make the less, none must presume to make Christ Officers and Churches without his Commission.
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17. No man must make any Office, Church or Ordinance, which is corruptive or destructive, or contrary, or injurious to the Offices, Churches and Ordinances which Christ himself hath made. This Bellarmine confesseth, and therefore I suppose Protestants will not deny it. Those humane Offices which usurp the work of Christs own Officers, and take it out of their hands, do malignantly fight against Christs institutions: And while they pretend that it is but Preserving and not Corrupting or Opposing additions which they make, and yet with these words in their mouths, do either give Christs Officers work to others, or hinder and oppress his Officers themselves, and by their new Church-forms undermine or openly destroy the old, by this expression of their enmity they confute themselves.
17. No man must make any Office, Church or Ordinance, which is corruptive or destructive, or contrary, or injurious to the Offices, Churches and Odinances which Christ himself hath made. This Bellarmine confesseth, and therefore I suppose Proestants will not deny it. Those humane Offices which usurp the work of Christs own Officers, and take it out of their hands, do malignantly fight against Christs institutions: And while they pretend that it is but Preserving and not Corrupting or Opposing additions which they make, and yet with these words in their mouths, do either give Christs Officers work to others, or hinder and oppress his Officers themselves, and by their new Church-forms undermine or openly destroy the old, by this expression of their enmity they confute themselves.