A26892:6987
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. The ancient Lent consisted first of one day (Good-friday) alone; and after that of three days, and then of six, and at last it came up to forty. (Of which read Dallaeus ubi supra at large.)
4. The antient Lent consisted first of one day (Good-fryday) alone; and after that of three dayes, and then of six, and at last it came up to fourty. (Of which read Dallaeus ubi supra at large.)
5. None can question the lawfulness of an obedient keeping of such a Civil Lent fast as our Statutes command, for the vending of Fish, and for the breed of Cattle; so be it, no bodily necessity o• greater duty be against it.
6. It is not unlawful for those that cannot totally fast, yet to use more abstinence and a more mortifying sort of diet than ordinary for the exercises of repentance and mortification, in due time.
6. It is not unlawful for those that cannot totally fast, yet to use more abstinence and a more mortifying sort of dyet than ordinary for the exercises of repentance and mortification, in due time.