A26892:6850
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
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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.
7. A• we are ••••rlier devoted and rela•ed to God, than Church lands, goods, and temples are, so the sacrilege of alienating a consecrated person unjustly, is greater and more unquestionable than the sacrilege of alienating Consecrated houses, lands or things. And therefore no Minister may Sacrilegiously alienate himself from God and his undertaken office and work.
7. A• we are ••••rlier devoted and rela•ed to God, than Church lands, goods, and temples are, so the sacriledge of alienating a consecrated person unjustly, is greater and more unquestionable than the sacriledge of alienating Consecrated houses, lands or things. And therefore no Minister may Sacrilegiously alienate himself from God and his undertaken office and work.