A26892:7287
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.
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.
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.
2. As part of some days may be weekly used in holy assemblies, so may whole days on just extraordinary occasions, of prayer, preaching, humiliation, and thanksgiving.
2. As part of some dayes may be weekly used in holy assemblies, so may whole days on just extraordinary occasions, of prayer, preaching, humiliation, and thanksgiving.
3. The holy doctrine, lives and sufferings of the Martyr• and other holy men, hath been so great a mercy to the Church, that (for any thing I know) it is lawful to keep anniversary Thanksgivings in remembrance of them, and to encourage the weak, and provoke them to constancy and imitation.
3. The holy doctrine, lives and sufferings of the Martyr• and other holy men, hath been so great a mercy to the Church, that (for any thing I know) it is lawful to keep anniversary Thanksgivings in remembrance of them, and to encourage the weak, and prvoke them to constancy and imitation.