A26892:7157
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.
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.
Quest. 114. Whether Stage-plays where the Virtuous and Vicious are personated, be lawful?
Quest. 114. Whether Stage-playes where the Virtuous and Vitious are personated, be lawful?
Because this is a kind of Imagery, the Question may be here fitly handled. But I have said so much before of Stage-plays, and the sin that is used in them, Lib. 1. Chap. 18. Part 2. that I have nothing more to say here, but only to decide this particular Case of Conscience concerning them.
BEcause this is a kind of Imagery, the Question may be here fitly handled. But I have said so much before of Stage-playes, and the sin that is used in them, Lib. 1. Chap. 18. Part 2. that I have nothing more to say here, but only to decide this particular Case of Conscience concerning them.
As I am not willing to thrust any man into extremes, nor to trouble men with calling those sins which God hath not forbidden; So I have reason to advise men to go in doubtful cases on the safer side; much more to dissuade them from undoubted sin, and especially from great and multiplied sins: And therefore I must thus decide the question.
As I am not willing to thrust any man into extreams, nor to trouble men with calling those sins which God hath not forbidden; So I have reason to advise men to go in doubtful cases on the safer side; much more to disswade them from undoubted sin, and especially from great and multiplyed sins: And therefore I must thus decide the question.