A26892:6584
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.
So that our question is much like this, Whether all the Grammar Schools in England, as under one King may be called one National School? Answ. Not without unfitness, and inconveniences: But rather than breed any quarrel, they may call them so that please: But, 1. They must confess that a particular School is the famosius significatum. 2. That the King is King of Schools, but not a Schoolmaster, nor a constitutive part of a School; 3. That if you will needs denominate them from the Regent part, as One, you must call them all one Royal School, if you will leave the well known sense of words for such uncouth phrases. But give us leave to call the Body which is essentiated by a King, by the name of a Kingdom only, though it have in it many Schools, Academies, Colleges, Cities, Churches, which they that please may call all one Royal School, Academy, College, City and Church, if they love confusion.
So that our question is much like this, Whether all the Grammar Schools in England, as under one King may be called one National School? Answ. Not without unfitness, and inconveniences: But rather than breed any quarrel, they may call them so that please: But, 1. They must confess that a particular School is the famosius significatum. 2. That the King is King of Schools, but not a Schoolmaster, nor a constitutive part of a School; 3. That if you will needs denominate them from the Regent part, as One, you must call them all one Royal School, if you will leave the well known sense of words for such uncouth phrases. But give us leave to call the Body which is essentiated by a King, by the name of a Kingdom only, though it have in it many Schools, Academies, Colledges, Cities, Churches, which they that please may call all one Royal School, Academy, Colledge, City and Church, if they love confusion.
4. Christianity giveth men right to communion in particular Churches, when they also make known their Christianity to the Bishops of those Churches, and are received (as stated or transient) members by mutual consent; but not otherwise: nor doth mere Regal Government, give any subject right to Church Communion, except by a Church you mean a Kingdom.
4. Christianity giveth men right to communion in particular Churches, when they also make known their Christianity to the Bishops of those Churches, and are received (as stated or transient) members by mutual consent; but not otherwise: nor doth meer Regal Government, give any subject right to Church Communion, except by a Church you mean a Kingdom.