A26892:6614
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. Not in any use of the sword or corporal •orce.
Answ. 1. NOt in any use of the sword or corporal •orce.
2. Not in a power to contradict Gods word.
3. Not in a power co-ordinate with Christs, to do his proper work, or that which hath the same grounds, reasons, and nature.
4. Not in an unquestionable Empire, to command things which none must presume to examine, or judge of by a discerning judgement, whether they be forbidden by God or not.
5. Not now in making a new word of God, or new Articles of faith, or new universal Laws, for the whole Church.