A26892:7090
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.
3. This is to be expressed by the Body, by convenient actions.
4. The highest honour which we owe to any, is for the Image of God in them, viz. 1. His Natural Image as men, 2. His moral Image as Saints, 3. His Relative Image of supereminency, as superiors. And so it is God in them first, and they next as the Images of God, who are to be honoured.
4. The highest honour which we owe to any, is for the Image of God in them, viz. 1. His Natural Image as men, 2. His moral Image as Saints, 3. His Relative Image of supereminency, as superiours. And so it is God in them first, and they next as the Images of God, who are to be honoured.
5. There is no honour to be given to any Creature, but that of which God himself is the End; viz. as it referreth to his Glory.
6. Therefore all honour given to men, must be thus far Religious honour (or worship): For as all1 things are sanctified to and by Saints, so all things that Religious men do, must be Religiously done.