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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
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.
2. To say that either that is written in the Bible which is not, or that any thing is the sense of a Text which is not; and so that any thing is a sin or a duty by Scripture which is not. Or to father Apocryphal Books or Texts or words upon the spirit of Christ.
3. To make any Law for the Church universal, or as obligatory to all Christians; which is to usurp the sovereignty of Christ: For which treasonable Usurpation it is that Protestants call the Pope Antichrist.
3. To make any Law for the Church universal, or as obligatory to all Christians; which is to usurp the soveraignty of Christ: For which treasonable Usurpation it is that Protestants call the Pope Antichrist.
4. To add new parts to the Christian Religion.
5. To make any Law, which it did properly belong to the Universal Sovereign to have made, if it should have been made at all: Or which implieth an accusation of ignorance, oversight, error or omission in Christ and the holy Scriptures.
5. To make any Law, which it did properly belong to the Universal Soveraign to have made, if it should have been made at all: Or which implyeth an accusation of ignorance, oversight, errour or omission in Christ and the holy Scriptures.