A26892:7388
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.
7. And they do a great deal of hurt in the Church, by putting the same distracting and dividing conceits into the heads of others. And young Christians, and Women, and ignorant well meaning people, that are not able to know who is in the right, do often turn to that party which they think most strict and godly, (though it be such as our Quakers.) And the very good conceit of the people whom they take it from, doth settle so strong a prejudice in their mind, as no argument or evidence scarcely can work out: And so Education, Converse and humane estimation, breedeth a succession of dividers and troublers of the Churches.
8. They sin against God by calling good evil, and light darkness, and honouring superstition, which is the work of Satan, with holy names.1
9. They sin by adding to the Word of God; while they say of abundance of Lawful things, This is unlawful, and that is against the Word of God, and pretend that their Touch not, taste not, handle1 not, is in the Scriptures. For while they make it a Rule for every Circumstance in particular, they must squeeze, and force, and wrest it, to find out all those Circumstances in it which were never there; and so by false expositions make the Scriptures another thing.