A26892:6575
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.
5. These Patriarchs, Primates and Metropolitans at first claimed their extrinsic power but from Man, that is, either the Consent and Agreement of the Churches, or the grant of the Emperors: But in time they grew to claim it as of Divine or Apostolical appointment, and as unalterable.
5. These Patriarks, Primates and Metropolitans at first claimed their extrinsick power but from Man, that is, either the Consent and Agreement of the Churches, or the grant of the Emperours: But in time they grew to claim it as of Divine or Apostolical appointment, and as unalterable.
6. At first they were taken only for Adjuncts, ornaments, supports or conveniences to the Churches. But afterwards they pretended to be integral parts of the Church universal, and at last the Pope would needs be an Essential part? And his Cardinals must claim the power of the Church Universal in being the choosers of an Universal Head, or a King-Priest and Teacher for all the Christians of the World.
7. At first Lay men (now called Chancellors, &c.) were only the Bishops Counsellors, or officers to the Magistrate or them, in performing the extrinsical work about Church adjuncts, which a Lay man might do. But at last they came to exercise the Intrinsic power of the Keys, in Excommunications and Absolutions, &c.
7. At first Lay men (now called Chancellors, &c.) were only the Bishops Counsellors, or officers to the Magistrate or them, in performing the extrinsecal work about Church adjuncts, which a Lay man might do. But at last they came to exercise the Intrinsick power of the Keys, in Excommunications and Absolutions, &c.