A26892:7227
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. 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.
For, 1. He is a Minister of Christ for the Church, and not the Minister of the Church properly. And he is subordinate to Christ in his Priestly Office, as well as in his Teaching and Ruling Office: And the Priests did always take it for their Office not only to speak as the Peoples mouth, but as Sub-mediators or Intercessors for them to God: And as then they were Types of Christ by standing between God and the people, so they were his Officers as well as Types: And so they are his Officers to this day: And as they Teach and Rule in his Name by Office, so do they intercede in his Name: All men confess that they may do this in private: And where is it forbidden to be done in public?