A26892:7207
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.
Answ. 1. IT were to be wished that the custom were changed: 1. Because the names have been so grossly abused: 2. And we have no need of them: 3. And as the Papists say, [Our Monuments, Temple-names and other Relicts among you prove ours to be the old Religion, and keep possession for us till it be restored.] So the Heathens say to all the Christians, [Your very names of your days and months prove our Religion to be elder than yours, and keep possession for us, till it be restored].
Answ. 1. IT were to be wished that the custome were changed: 1. Because the names have been so grosly abused: 2. And we have no need of them: 3. And as the Papists say, [Our Monuments, Temple-names and other Relicts among you prove ours to be the old Religion, and keep possession for us till it be restored.] So the Heathens say to all the Christians, [Your very names of your dayes and moneths prove our Religion to be elder than yours, and keep possession for us, till it be restored].
2. It is meet that we wisely do our duty toward the reformation of this abuse.
3. But yet long custom and sound doctrine hath so far taken away the scandal and ill effects, that rather than be an offence to any by seeming singularity, it is as lawful still to use these names, as it was to Luke to use the names of Castor and Pollux, Jupiter and Mercury historically.
3. But yet long custome and sound doctrine hath so far taken away the scandal and ill effects, that rather than be an offence to any by seeming singularity, it is as lawful still to use these names, as it was to Luke to use the names of Castor and Pollux, Iupiter and Mercury historically.