A26892:7236
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.
And Heb. 13. 10. saith, We have an Altar whereof they partake not, &c. And the word is frequently used in the Revelations, Chap. 6. 9. & 8. 3, 5. & 16. 7, &c. in relation to Gospel times. We must not therefore be quarrelsome against the bare names, unless they be abused to some ill use.
4. The ancient Fathers and Churches did ever use all these words so familiarly without any question or scruple raised about them, either by the Orthodox or any Heretics that at present I can remember to have ever read of, that we should be the more wary how we condemn the bare words, lest thence we give advantage to the Papists to make them tell their followers, that all Antiquity was on their side. Which were very easy for them to prove, if the Controversy were about the Names alone. Extremes, and passionate imprudence do give the adversaries great advantages.
4. The antient Fathers and Churches did ever use all these words so familiarly without any question or scruple raised about them, either by the Orthodox or any Hereticks that at present I can remember to have ever read of, that we should be the more wary how we condemn the bare words, lest thence we give advantage to the Papists to make them tell their followers, that all Antiquity was on their side. Which were very easie for them to prove, if the Controversie were about the Names alone. Extreams, and passionate imprudence do give the adversaries great advantages.
5. The names of Sacrifice and Altar, were used by the Ancient Churches, not properly, but merely in allusion to the Jewish and Heathen Sacrifices and Altars, together with a tropical use from the Christian reasons of the Names.
5. The names of Sacrifice and Altar, were used by the Antient Churches, not properly, but meerly in allusion to the Jewish and Heathen Sacrifices and Altars, together with a tropical use from the Christian reasons of the Names.