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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.
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. 115. Is it ever unlawful to use the known Symbols and Badges of Idolatry?
Answ. 1. Ordinarily it is unlawful, as being the thing forbidden in the second Commandment. For he that useth them, 1. Is corporally Idolatrous, what ever his secret thoughts may be. 2. And he is interpretatively an Idolater, and actually persuadeth others to be so.
Answ. 1. ORdinarily it is unlawful, as being the thing forbidden in the second Commandment. For he that useth them, 1. Is corporally Idolatrous, what ever his secret thoughts may be. 2. And he is interpretatively an Idolater, and actually perswadeth others to be so.
2. But yet though no man may ever use such symbols of Idolatry formaliter, qua tales, as such; yet materially he may use them in some cases.
As 1. When an Idolater will take an Ordinance of God, and an appointed duty, and turn it into a symbol of his Idolatry: (As in the foregoing instance of the Mahometans.) We may not therefore forsake that duty; but we must do it in such a manner, as may sufficiently disclaim the Idolaters use of it. As if any Idolaters will m••••e a symbol of some Scripture Texts, or of the Lords Day, or of the Sacramental Bread and Wine, &c. we must not therefore disuse them.