A26892:7084
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.
Part 3 › Question 112: Quest. 112. Whether Religious Worship may be given to a Creature? and what?
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. By Worship is meant either Cultus in genere, any honour expressed to another; Or some special act of honour. We must understand the Question in the first General sense, or else we cannot answer it, till men tell us, what Acts of honouring they mean.
2. By Religious is meant either in general, that which we are bound to by God, or is done by virtue of a Religious, that is, a Divine obligation, and so is made part of our Religion, that is, of our obedience to God; Or else by Religious is meant Divine, or that which is properly due to God. The question must be taken in the first general sense; or else it is no question, but ridiculous, (to ask whether we may give Gods proper Worship to a creature).
And so I answer, 1. By way of distinction, 2. Of solution.
1. We must distinguish between the honour or worshipping acts of the mind, and of the Body. 2. Between Idolatry as against the first Commandment, and Idolatry or scandal as against the second.
1. We must distinguish between the honour or worshiping acts of the mind, and of the Body. 2. Between Idolatry as against the first Commandment, and Idolatry or scandal as against the second.