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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.
Part 3 › Question 140: Quest. 140. What is the use of Catechisms?
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. 140. What is the use of Catechisms?
Answ. TO be a more familiar explication of the Essentials of Christianity, and the principal Integrals, in a larger manner than the Creed, Lords Prayer and Decalogue do; that the ignorant may the more easily understand it. Every man cannot gather out of the Scripture the Greatest matters in the true method, as distinct from all the rest: And therefore it is part of the work of the Churches Teachers, to do it to the hands and use of the ignorant.
Quest. 141. Could any of us have known by the Scriptures alone, the Essentials of Religion from the Rest, if Tradition had not given them to us in the Creed, as from Apostolical Collection?
Answ. Yes: For the Scripture it self telleth us what is necessary to salvation: It describeth to us the Covenant of Grace, both Promises and Conditions: And it were strange if so large a Volume, should not as plainly tell us what is necessary to salvation, as fewer words? The Scripture hath not Less than the Creed, but more.
Answ. YEs: For the Scripture it self telleth us what is necessary to salvation: It describeth to us the Covenant of Grace, both Promises and Conditions: And it were strange if so large a Volume, should not as plainly tell us what is necessary to salvation, as fewer words? The Scripture hath not Less than the Creed, but more.