A26892:7225
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.
3. But they that will place a necessity in either of these, and make the contrary a sin, must have more knowledge than I have to be able to prove it.
For 1. In the latter case the Minister doth not pray in his own person, but only for his own person, when he saith, [We beseech thee give me thy help, &c.]
2. And I know no word of God that saith, either that the Minister is only the mouth of the people, 1or that he is to speak only in their names, or that he may not pray for himself or them in his Ministerial capacity in the first person.
- 11 Tim. 2. 1, 2. Isa. 59. 16. Jer. 27. 18. & 7. 16. & 29. 7. & 37. 3. & 42. 2, 4, 20. 1 Sam. 7. 5. & 12, 19, 23. 2 Cor. 13. 7. Phil. 1. 9. Col. 1. 9, 3.