A26892:7415
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.
So the women's Veil, and the custom of kissing each other as a token of Love, and mens not wearing long hair, were the customs of the Country there ordered and improved by the Apostles about sacred things; but not introduced into other Countries that had no such custom.
So the womens Vail, and the custome of kissing each other as a token of Love, and mens not wearing long hair, were the customes of the Countrey there ordered and improved by the Apostles about sacred things; but not introduced into other Countreys that had no such custome.
So also Anointing was in th•se Countries taken for salubrious, and refreshing to the body, and a ceremony of initiation into places of great honour; Whereupon it was used about the sick, and Gods giving the gift of healing in those times was frequently conjunct with this means. So that hence the anointing of the sick came up; and the ancient Christians turned it into an initiating Ceremony, ⟨p. 894⟩because we are Kings and Priests to God. Now these occasions extend not to those Countries where Anointing neither was of such use, or value, or signification.
So also Anointing was in th•se Countreys taken for salubrious, and refreshing to the body, and a ceremony of initiation into places of great honour; Whereupon it was used about the sick, and Gods giving the gift of healing in those times was frequently conjunct with this means. So that hence the anointing of the sick came up; and the antient Christians turned it into an initiating Ceremony, ⟨p. 894⟩because we are Kings and Priests to God. Now these occasions extend not to those Countreys where Anointing neither was of such use, or value, or signification.