A26892:6664
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.
7. There is not so much as any fair pretence for the Laity having power to judge who shall be received into the Universal Church: For who of the Laity should have this power? Not All, nor the Major Vote of the Church: For who ever sought the Votes of all the Christians in the World, before ⟨p. 842⟩he baptized a man? Not any one particular Church or persons above the rest: For they have no Right1 to show for it, more than the rest.
7. There is not so much as any fair pretence for the Laity having power to judge who shall be received into the Universal Church: For who of the Laity should have this power? Not All, nor the Major Vote of the Church: For who ever sought the Votes of all the Christians in the World, before ⟨p. 842⟩he baptized a man? Not any one particular Church or persons above the rest: For they have no Right1 to shew for it, more than the rest.
- 1Joh. 20 21, 22, 23. & 21. 15, 16, 17 Mat 28. 19, 20. 1 Cor. 4. 1, 2. 1 Tim. 5 17. Heb. 13. 7, 17. 1 Cor. 5. 3, 4, 5, 6, 11. 2 Thes. 3▪ 6, 10, 14. Tit. 3. 10. 2 Joh.