A26892:7443
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.
Quest. 139. What is the Use and Authority of the Creed? And is it of the Apostles framing or not? And is it the Word of God, or not?
Answ. 1. The Use of the Creed is, to be a plain explication of the Faith professed in the Baptismal Covenant: 1. For the fuller instruction of the duller sort, and those that had not preparatory knowledge, and could not sufficiently understand the meaning of the three Articles of the Covenant, what it is to believe in God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost without more words. 2. And for the satisfaction of the Church that indeed men understood what they did in baptism, and professed to believe.
Answ. 1. THe Use of the Creed is, to be a plain explication of the Faith professed in the Baptismal Covenant: 1. For the fuller instruction of the duller sort, and those that had not preparatory knowledge, and could not sufficiently understand the meaning of the three Articles of the Covenant, what it is to believe in God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost without more words. 2. And for the satisfaction of the Church that indeed men understood what they did in baptism, and professed to believe.
2. The Creed is the Word of God, as to all the Doctrine or Matter of it, what ever it be as to the order and composition of words.