A26892:7395
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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14. It sets men on Enthusiastical expectations, and irrational scandalous worshipping of God, while all men must avoid all those Methods, Phrases, Books, Helps, which are not expressly or particularly in Scripture, and men must no• use their own Inventions, or prudence in the right ordering of the works of Religion.
14. It sets men on Enthusiastical expectations, and irrational scandalous worshipping of God, while all men must avoid all those Methods, Phrases, Books, Helps, which are not expresly or particularly in Scripture, and men must no• use their own Inventions, or prudence in the right ordering of the works of Religion.
15. It destroyeth Christian Love and Concord, while men are taught to censure all others, that use any thing in Gods Worship which is not particularly in Scripture, and so to censure all true Worshippers in the world.
16. Yea, it will tempt men at last to be weary of their own Religion, because they will find it an unsatisfactory, uncomfortable, tiresome thing, to do their own superstitious work.