A26892:7289
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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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 pr•voke them to constancy and imitation.
4. But to dedicate days or Temples to them in any higher sense, as the Heathens and Idolaters did to their Hero's is unlawful; or any way to intimate an attribution of Divinity to them, by word or Worship.
4. But to dedicate dayes or Temples to them in any higher sence, as the Heathens and Idolaters did to their Hero's is unlawful; or any way to intimate an attribution of Divinity to them, by word or Worship.
5. And they that live among such Idolaters must take heed of giving them scandalous encouragement.