A26892:7004
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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5. When we cannot procure it, it is lawful and a duty to join in those Assemblies that are without it, and rather to enjoy the rest than none. Few Churches have the Lords Supper above once a month, which in the Primitive Church was used every Lords day and oftener: And yet they meet on other days.
5. When we cannot procure it, it is lawful and a duty to joyn in those Assemblies that are without it, and rather to enjoy the rest than none. Few Churches have the Lords Supper above once a moneth, which in the Primitive Church was used every Lords day and ofter: And yet they meet on other dayes.
6. It is possible that Preaching, Prayer and Praise may be so excellently performed in some Churches that want both Discipline and the Lords Supper, and all so coldly and ignorantly managed in another Church that hath all the Ordinances, that mens souls may much more flourish and prosper under the former than the later.
7. If forbearing or wanting some Ordinances for a time, be but in order to a probable procurement1 of them, we may the better forbear.