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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.
Part 3 › Question 113: Quest. 113. What Images, and what use of Images is lawful or unlawful?
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. It is not the name, but the thing which I speak of: Choose whether you will call it an Image of Christ secundum corpus, or an Image of Christs body. You cannot picture the soul of a man, and yet you may draw the picture of a mans body.
5. It is a great part of a believers work, to have Christs Image very much upon his imagination and1 so upon his mind. As if he saw him in the Manger, in his temptations, in his preaching, in his praying, watching, fasting, weeping, doing good, as crowned with thorns, as crucified, &c. that a Crucified Saviour being still as it were before our eyes, we may remember the price of our Redemption, and the example which we have to imitate; and that we are not to live like a Dives or a Caesar, but like the servants of a Crucified Christ. A Crucifix well befitteth the Imagination and mind of a believer.
5. It is a great part of a believers work, to have Christs Image very much upon his imagination and1 so upon his mind. As if he saw him in the Manger, in his temptations, in his preaching, in his praying, watching, fasting, weeping, doing good, as crown'd with thornes, as crucified, &c. that a Crucified Saviour being still as it were before our eyes, we may remember the price of our Redemption, and the example which we have to imitate; and that we are not to live like a Dives or a Caesar, but like the servants of a Crucified Christ. A Crucifix well befitteth the Imagination and mind of a believer.
- 1Rom. 8. 29. Rev. 1. 12, &c. 2 Cor. 4. 4. Col. 1. 15.