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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.
12. Thus it is lawful to represent the Devil, and Idols, when it tendeth but to make them odious. For as we must not take their names into our mouths, Psal. 16. 4. Exod. 23. 13. Ephes. 5, 3. that is, when it tendeth to honour them, or tempt men to it; and yet may name them as Elijah did in scorn, or as the Prophets did by reproof of sin; so is it also in making representations of them. Even as a Drunkard may be painted in his filth and folly to bring shame and odium on the sin.
12. Thus it is lawful to represent the Devil, and Idols, when it tendeth but to make them odious. For as we must not take their names into our mouths, Psal. 16. 4. Exod. 23. 13. Ephes. 5, 3. that is, when it tendeth to honour them, or tempt men to it; and yet may name them as Elias did in scorn, or as the Prophets did by reproof of sin; so is it also in making representations of them. Even as a Drunkard may be painted in his filth and folly to bring shame and odium on the sin.
13. It is lawful to use Hieroglyphics instead of Letters, in teaching Children, or in Letters to friends; or to make Images to stand as characters in stead of Words, and so to use them even about sacred things.
13. It is lawful to use Hieroglyphicks instead of Letters, in teaching Children, or in Letters to friends; or to make Images to stand as characters in stead of Words, and so to use them even about sacred things.