A26892:6640
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.
2. To do it as Called and Commissioned Ministers of Christ, who have a special nunciative and Teaching Authority committed to them; And therefore are in a special manner to be heard, according to their special Authority.
3. To be the stated Teachers of particular Churches, as their Pastors and Guides; (Though they may sometime permit a Lay man when there is cause to Teach them pro tempore) These three are proper to the Ministerial and Pastors office.
But for the regulating of Lay mens Teaching, 1. They must statedly keep in their families or within their proper bounds.
2. They must not presume to go beyond their abilities; especially in matters dark and difficult.
3. They must not thrust themselves without a just call and need into public or numerous meetings as Teachers, nor do that which savoureth of Pride or Ostentation, or which tendeth to cherish those vices in others.