A26892:7144
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.
9. It is lawful (seasonably and in fit circumstances) to use Images, 1. For memory, 2. For clearer apprehension, 3. For more passionate affection, even in Religious cases; which is commonly called The Historical use of them. For these ends the Geneva Bible, and some other, have the Scripture Histories in Printed Images: To show the Papists that it is not all Images, or all use of them, that they were against. And so men were wont to picture Dives in his feasting, with Lazarus in rags, over their Tables, to mind them of the sinfulness of sensuality. And so the Sacred Histories are ordinarily painted, as useful ornaments of rooms, which may profit the spectators.
9. It is lawful (seasonably and in fit circumstances) to use Images, 1. For memory, 2. For clearer apprehension, 3. For more passionate affection, even in Religious cases; which is commonly called The Historical use of them. For these ends the Geneva Bible, and some other, have the Scripture Histories in Printed Images: To shew the Papists that it is not all Images, or all use of them, that they were against. And so men were wont to picture Dives in his feasting, with Lazarus in rags, over their Tables, to mind them of the sinfulness of sensuality. And so the Sacred Histories are ordinarily painted, as useful ornaments of rooms, which may profit the spectators.
10. Thus it is lawful to honour the memory of Learned, Great, and Virtuous persons, Saints and1 Martyrs, by keeping their Images; and by the beholding of them to be remembered of our duty, and excited to imitation of them.
10. Thus it is lawful to honour the memory of Learned, Great, and Virtuous persons, Saints and1 Martyrs, by keeping their Images; and by the beholding of them to be remembred of our duty, and excited to imitation of them.
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