A26892:6656
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.
Quest. 62. Is the trial, judgement, or consent of the Laity necessary to the admittance of a member into the Universal or particular Church?
Quest. 62. Is the tryal, judgement, or consent of the Laity necessary to the admittance of a member into the Universal or particular Church?
Answ. 1. IT is the Pastors office to bear and exercise the Keys of Christs Church: Therefore by office he is to Receive those that come in; and consequently to be the trier and Judge of their fitness.
Answ. 1. IT is the Pastors office to bear and exercise the Keyes of Christs Church: Therefore by office he is to Receive those that come in; and consequently to be the tryer and Iudge of their fitness.
2. It belongeth to the same office which is to Baptize, to Judge who is to be baptized: Otherwise Ministers should not be rational Judges of their own actions, but the executioners of other mens judgement. It is more the Judging who is to be baptized, which the Ministers office consisteth in, than in the bare doing of the outward act of Baptizing.
2. It belongeth to the same office which is to Baptize, to Iudge who is to be baptized: Otherwise Ministers should not be rational Judges of their own actions, but the executioners of other mens judgement. It is more the Iudging who is to be baptized, which the Ministers office consisteth in, than in the bare doing of the outward act of Baptizing.