A26892:6589
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.
Answ. 1. From one absurdity many follow: our Controversy before was but of the Name: If an Accidental Royal or Civil Head may equivocally denominate an ecclesiastical society, and we grant you the use of an equivocal name (or rather the abuse) you will grow too hard upon us, if thence you will gather a necessity of a real Ecclesiastical policy, besides the Civil. Names abused insert not the things signified by an univocal term.
Answ. 1. From one absurdity many follow: our Controversie before was but of the Name: If an Accidental Royal or Civil Head may equivocally denominate an ecclesiastical society, and we grant you the use of an equivocal name (or rather the abuse) you will grow too hard upon us, if thence you will gather a necessity of a real Ecclesiastical policy, besides the Civil. Names abused insert not the things signified by an univocal term.
2. You must first prove the form of Government, and thence infer the denomination, and not contrarily, first beg the name, and then infer the Government.
2. You must first prove the form of Government, and thence inferr the denomination, and not contrarily, first beg the name, and then inferr the Government.
3. If yet by [a form of Ecclesiastical Government] you meant nothing but the Kings extrinsic Government (which you may as well call also a form of School-Government, of College Government, &c.) we would grant you all. But if I can understand you, you now speak of Ecclesiastical Government as distinct from that. And then,
3. If yet by [a form of Ecclesiastical Government] you meant nothing but the Kings extrinsick Government (which you may as well call also a form of School-Government, of Colledge Government, &c.) we would grant you all. But if I can understand you, you now speak of Ecclesiastical Government as distinct from that. And then,