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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.
16. It is lawful to preserve the honest and sober Love to our friends, by keeping their Pictures; or to show our Love by decent Monuments.
16. It is lawful to preserve the honest and sober Love to our friends, by keeping their Pictures; or to shew our Love by decent Monuments.
17. Where we may use Creatures themselves to profit us by the sight, we may (ordinarily) use the Images of those creatures. As the sight of Trees, Fruits, Cities, &c. may delight us, and mind us of the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God, (or the sight of the Sun, Moon, Stars, &c.) So may the pictures of the same things. And as a dead body, skeleton, or skull, may profitably mind us of our latter end; so may the picture of any of these, which we may more conveniently keep.
17. Where we may use Creatures themselves to profit us by the sight, we may (ordinarily) use the Images of those creatures. As the sight of Trees, Fruits, Cities, &c. may delight us, and mind us of the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God, (or the sight of the Sun, Moon, Stars, &c.) So may the pictures of the same things. And as a dead body, skelleton, or skull, may profitably mind us of our latter end; so may the picture of any of these, which we may more conveniently keep.
18. It is not unlawful to pray before or towards an Image, in a room where Images are placed only for Ornament, and we have no respect to them as a medium or object of our Worship, (except by accident, as aforesaid.)