A26892:7052
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.
Answ. The answer of the last question may serve for this. 1. The Magistrate only may do it by way of Laws, or civil Mandate enforced by the sword.
Answ. THe answer of the last question may serve for this. 1. The Magistrate only may do it by way of Laws, or civil Mandate enforced by the sword.
2. The Pastors may do it in case of necessity, by Pastoral advice and exhortation, and nunciative command in the name of Christ.
3. The people may do it by Petition.
4. As ordinary Church Assemblies must be held if the Magistrate forbid them (of which next) so must extraordinary ones, when extraordinary causes make it a duty.
5. When the Magistrate forcibly hindereth them, natural impossibility resolveth the question, about our duty.