A26892:7317
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.
4. It is no full Rule in particular for all those Political, principles▪ which are the ground of humane Laws: As whether each Republic be Monarchical, Aristocratical or Democratical? What person ⟨p. 887⟩or of what Family shall Reign? Who shall be his Officers and Judges, and how diversified? so of his Treasury, Munition, Coin, &c.
4. It is no full Rule in particular for all those Political, principles▪ which are the ground of humane Laws: As whether each Republick be Monarchical, Aristocratical or Democratical? What person ⟨p. 887⟩or of what Family shall Reign? Who shall be his Officers and Judges, and how diversified? so of his Treasury, Munition, Coin, &c.
5. It is no Rule of Propriety in particular, by which every man may know which is his own Land, or house, or goods or Cattle.
6. It is no particular Rule for our natural actions, what meat we shall eat, what Clothes we shall wear; So of our rest, labour, &c.
6. It is no particular Rule for our natural actions, what meat we shall eat, what Cloaths we shall wear; So of our rest, labour, &c.