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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
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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.
Quest. 128. Is the Lords day a Sabbath, and so to be called and kept, and that of Divine institution? And is the seventh day Sabbath abrogated, &c.
Answ. ALL the Cases about the Lords day (except those practical directions for keeping it, in the Economical part of this Book) I have put into a peculiar Treatise on that subject by it self; and therefore shall here pass them over, referring the Reader to them in that discourse.
Answ. ALL the Cases about the Lords day (except those practical directions for keeping it, in the Oeconomical part of this Book) I have put into a peculiar Treatise on that subject by it self; and therefore shall here pass them over, referring the Reader to them in that discourse.
Quest. 129. Is it Lawful to appoint humane Holy days, and observe them?
Quest. 129. Is it Lawful to appoint humane Holy dayes, and observe them?
Answ. This also I have spoke to in the foresaid Treatise, and in my Disput. of Church-Govern. and Cer. Briefly, 1. It is not lawful to appoint another weekly sabbath, or day wholly separated to the Commemoration of our redemption: For that is to mend (pretendedly) the institutions of God; Yea and to contradict him who hath judged one day only in seven to be the fittest weekly proportion.