A26892:6735
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.
13. When persons are at age, if Pastors, Parents and themselves be not grossly negligent, they may and ought to learn these things in a very little time; so that they need not be settled in a lower Learning state, for any considerable time, unless their own negligence be the cause.
13. When persons are at age, if Pastors, Parents and themselves be not grosly negligent, they may and ought to learn these things in a very little time; so that they need not be setled in a lower Learning state, for any considerable time, unless their own negligence be the cause.
14. And in order to their Learning, they have right to be Spectators and Auditors at the Eucharist, and not to be driven away with the Catechumens, as if they had no right to be there. For it is a thing best taught by the practice to beholders.
15. But if any shall by scandal or gross neglect of piety, and not only by Ignorance give cause of questioning their title, and suspending their possession of those sacred privileges, these are to be reckoned in another rank, even among those whose title to Church-membership it self, becometh controverted, and must undergo a trial in the Church.
15. But if any shall by scandal or gross neglect of piety, and not only by Ignorance give cause of questioning their title, and suspending their possession of those sacred priviledges, these are to be reckoned in another rank, even among those whose title to Church-membership it self, becometh controverted, and must undergo a tryal in the Church.