A26892:7164
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.
3. To personate a bad man, in a bad action, is more dubious; but seemeth not to be in all cases unlawful. To pass by Davids feigning himself mad (as of uncertain quality,) it is common with Preachers, to speak oft the words of wicked men, as in their names or persons, to disgrace them: And Prov. 5. 11, 12, &c. cometh near it. And whether Job be a History, or a Dialogue personating such speakers, is doubted by the most learned Expositors.
3. To personate a bad man, in a bad action, is more dubious; but seemeth not to be in all cases unlawful. To pass by Davids feigning himself mad (as of uncertain quality,) it is common with Preachers, to speak oft the words of wicked men, as in their names or persons, to disgrace them: And Prov. 5. 11, 12, &c. cometh near it. And whether Iob be a History, or a Dialogue personating such speakers, is doubted by the most learned Expositors.
4. I think it possible to devise and act a Comedy or Tragedy, which should be lawful, and very edifying. It might be so ordered by wise men.
4. I think it possible to devise and act a Comoedy or Tragoedy, which should be lawful, and very edifying. It might be so ordered by wise men.
5. I think I never knew or heard of a Lawful Stage-play, Comedy or Tragedy, in the age that I have lived in: And that those now commonly used, are not only sins, but heinous aggravated sins; for these reasons.
5. I think I never knew or heard of a Lawful Stage-play, Comoedy or Tragoedy, in the age that I have lived in: And that those now commonly used, are not only sins, but heinous aggravated sins; for these reasons.