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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. 109. May we omit Church-assemblies on the Lords day, if the Magistrate forbid them?
Answ. 1. IT is one thing to forbid them for a time, upon some special cause, (as Infection by1 pestilence, fire, war, &c.) And another thing to forbid them statedly or profanely.
Answ. 1. IT is one thing to forbid them for a time, upon some special cause, (as Infection by1 pestilence, fire, war, &c.) And another thing to forbid them statedly or prophanely.
- 1May we omit Church-Assemblies on the Lords day, if forbidden by Magistrates.
2. It is one thing to omit them for a time, and another to do it ordinarily.
3. It is one thing to omit them in formal obedience to the Law; and another thing to omit them in prudence or for necessity, because we cannot keep them.