A26892:7213
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.
2. Our great and principal business in coming to the Church assembly is to join with them in the public Worship; And this is it that accordingly as our great business we must intend and do.
2. Our great and principal business in coming to the Church assembly is to joyn with them in the publick Worship; And this is it that accordingly as our great business we must intend and do.
3. In a place where superstition makes ignorant people think it a matter of necessity, so to begin with secret prayer, when the Church is otherwise employed, the use of it is the more scandalous, as encouraging them in their error.
4. It is the best way to come before the public worship begin, and then they that think it most decent may do it without scruple or just offence.
4. It is the best way to come before the publick worship begin, and then they that think it most decent may do it without scruple or just offence.
5. But as a mans heart may put up a short ejaculation as he walketh up the Church, without losing what else he might hear, so a man may on his knees be so brief, as that his loss shall be but small: And whether his profit preponderate that little times loss, he can judge better than another. Therefore though I like best keeping to Concord with the Assembly in our devotion, yet these are things in which it ill beseemeth Christians to judge or despise each other: And I shall take on either side the judging and despising of those that differ from us, to be a far greater sin, than the doing or not doing of the thing.