A26892:7313
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.
Part 3 › Question 130: Quest. 130. How far is the holy Scriptures a Law and perfect Rule to us?
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.
Thus far the holy Scripture with the Law of nature is our perfect Rule. But not in any of the following respects.
1. It is no particular revelation or perfect Rule of natural Sciences, as Physics, Metaphysics, &c.
1. It is no particular revelation or perfect Rule of natural Sciences, as Physicks, Metaphysicks, &c.
2. It is no Rule for the Arts, for Medicine, Music, Arithmetic, Geometry, Astronomy; Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic, nor for the Mechanics, as Navigation, Architecture; and all the Trades and occupations of men: no not Husbandry by which we have our food.
2. It is no Rule for the Arts, for Medicine, Musick, Arithmetick, Geometry, Astronomy; Grammar, R•e•orick, Logick, nor for the Mechanicks, as Navigation, Architecture; and all the Trades and occupations of men: no not Husbandry by which we have our food.
3. It is no particular Rule for all the mutable subordinate duties of any societies: It will not serve instead of all the Statutes of this and all other Lands, nor tell us, when the Terms shall begin and end; nor what work every Parent and Master shall set his Children and Servants in his family, &c.