A26892:6845
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.
1. That he that is justly silenced, and is unfit to Preach, is bound to forbear.
2. He that is silenced by just Power though unjustly in a Country that needeth not his Preaching, must forbear there, and if he can, must go into another Co•••••y where he may be more serviceable.
2. He that is silenced by just Power though unjustly in a Countrey that needeth not his Preaching, must forbear there, and if he can, must go into another Co•••••y where he may be more serviceable.
3. Magistrates may not Ecclesiastically Ordain Ministers or degrade them, But only either give them Liberty, or deny it them as there is cause.
4. Magistrates are not the •ountain of the Ministerial Office, as the Sovereign is of all the Civil power of inferior Magistrates; But both offices are immediately from God.
4. Magistrates are not the •ountain of the Ministerial Office, as the Soveraign is of all the Civil power of inferiour Magistrates; But both offices are immediately from God.