A26892:7012
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.
2. But in judging of what is Best for the Church, I must take in every accident and circumstance, and look to many, more than to a few, and to distant parts as well as to those near me, and to the time and ages to come, as well as to the present, and not go upon mistaken suppositions of the Churches good: He that doth not see all things that are to be weighed in such a case, may err by leaving out some one.
3. I would obey the Magistrate formally for conscience sake in all things which belong to his Office; And particularly in this case, if it were but a Removal from place to place, in respect to the Temple, or Tithes, or for the Civil peace, or for the preservation of Church order in cases where it is not grossly injurious to the Church and Gospel.
3. I would obey the Magistrate formally for conscience sake in all things which belong to his Office; And particularly in this case, if it were but a Removal from place to place, in respect to the Temple, or Tythes, or for the Civil peace, or for the preservation of Church order in cases where it is not grosly injurious to the Church and Gospel.
4. In cases which by Gods appointment belong to the Conduct of Bishops, or Pastors, or the Concord of Consociate Churches, I would formaliter follow them. And in particular, if they satisfy me that the removal of me is an apparent injury to the Church, (As in the Arians times when the Emperors removed the Orthodox from all the Great Churches to put in Arians) I would not obedientially and voluntarily remove.
4. In cases which by Gods appointment belong to the Conduct of Bishops, or Pastors, or the Concord of Consociate Churches, I would formaliter follow them. And in particular, if they satisfie me that the removal of me is an apparent injury to the Church, (As in the Arrians times when the Emperours removed the Orthodox from all the Great Churches to put in Arrians) I would not obedientially and voluntarily remove.