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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.
Answ. This question is the more worthy consideration, that we may withal understand the use of Catechisms, Confessions and Creeds (of which after), and the great and tender mercies of God to the weak, and may be able to answer the Cavils of the Papists against the Scriptures, as insufficient to be the Rule of Faith and Life, because much of it is hard to be understood.
Answ. THis question is the more worthy consideration, that we may withal understand the use of Catechisms, Confessions and Creeds (of which after), and the great and tender mercies of God to the weak, and may be able to answer the Cavils of the Papists against the Scriptures, as insufficient to be the Rule of Faith and Life, because much of it is hard to be understood.
1. He that believeth God to be true, and the Scripture to be his Word, must needs believe all to be true, which he believeth to be his Word.
2. All the Scripture is profitable to our knowledge, love and practice; and none of it to be neglected, but all to be loved, reverenced and studied, in due time and order, by them that have time and capacity to do it.
3. All the Holy Scriptures, either as to matter or words, are not so necessary, as that no man can be saved, who doth not either believe or understand them: But some parts of it are more necessary than others.