A26892:7011
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.
1. I would look at my ultimate end, Gods Glory, and at the next end the Good of souls and welfare 1of the Church; and so at the Peoples Interest as it is the End of the Order of Magistracy and Ministry: And I would take my self to be so obliged to that end, as that no point of mere Order could disoblige me; the End being better than the Means as such: Therefore I would do all things to edification, supposing that all Power of man is as Paul's was for Edification and not for destruction.
1. I would look at my ultimate end, Gods Glory, and at the next end the Good of souls and welfare 1of the Church; and so at the Peoples Interest as it is the End of the Order of Magistracy and Ministry: And I would take my self to be so obliged to that end, as that no point of meer Order could disoblige me; the End being better than the Means as such: Therefore I would do all things to edification, supposing that all Power of man is as Paul's was for Edification and not for destruction.