A26892:6993
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.
Quest. 102. May we continue in a Church, where some one Ordinance of Christ is wanting, as Discipline, Prayer, Preaching or Sacraments, though we have all the rest?
Answ. Distinguish 1. Of Ordinances: 2. Of a stated want, and a temporary want: 3. Of one that may have better: and one that cannot.
Answ. DIstinguish 1. Of Ordinances: 2. Of a stated want, and a temporary want: 3. Of one that may have better: and one that cannot.
1. Teaching, Prayer and Praise, are Ordinances of such necessity that Church Assemblies have not their proper use without them.
2. The Lords Supper is of a secondary need, and must be used when […], but a Church-Assembly may attain its ends sometimes without it, in a good degree.
2. The Lords Supper is of a secondary need, and must be used when 〈…〉, but a Church-Assembly may attain its ends sometimes without it, in a good degree.