A26892:6848
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.
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.
5. Magistrates have not power from God to forbid men to Preach in all cases, nor as they please, but justly only and according to Gods Laws.
6. Men be not made Ministers of Christ only pro tempore or on trial, to go off again if they dislike it; But are absolutely dedicated to God, and take their lot for better and for worse; which maketh the Romanists say, that ordination is a Sacrament (and so it may be aptly called;) and that we receive an indelible character, that is, an obligation during life, unless God himself disable us.
6. Men be not made Ministers of Christ only pro tempore or on tryal, to go off again if they dislike it; But are absolutely dedicated to God, and take their lot for better and for worse; which maketh the Romanists say, that ordination is a Sa•ramen• (and so it may be aptly called;) and that we receive an indelible character, that is, an obligation during life, unless God himself disable us.