A26892:7202
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.
5. If the King would give not only the Garments, but the Money, Lands, Lordships, Houses, which have been Consecrated or otherwise abused to Idolatry; to any poor people, or most of the scrupulous, they would think it lawful to receive and use them: yea, its lawful to dedicate the same Lands and Money afterwards to holy uses, and to maintain Religious Worship.
6. Otherwise it were in the power of any Idolater when ever he pleased to deprive all the Christian ⟨p. 880⟩world of their Christian liberty, and to make nothing indifferent to us, seeing they can abuse them all.
7. Yea, almost nothing is then already indifferent, there being few things that some person in some time and place hath not abused to Idolatry.
8. If the question be only of all Individual things abused to Idolatry, the decision now given will hold good: But if it be also of all species of such things, it will be a dishonour to a mans reason to make a question of it.