A26892:7165
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.
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.
1. They personate odious Vices commonly viciously, that is, 1. Without need, reciting sinful words, and representing sinful actions; which as they were evil in the first committing, so are they in the needless repetition; Ephes. 5. 3, 12. But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness (or lust) let it not be once named among you as becometh Saints: neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting which are not convenient; but rather giving of thanks—For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. 2. Because they are spoken and acted commonly without that shame, and hatred, and grief which should rightly affect the hearers with an abhorrence of them; And therefore tend to reconcile men to sin, and to tempt them to take it but for a matter of sport.
1. They personate odious Vices commonly vitiously, that is, 1. Without need, reciting sinful words, and representing sinful actions; which as they were evil in the first committing, so are they in the needless repetition;