A26892:7463
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. 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.
Quest. 142. What is the best Method of a true Catechism or Sum of Theology?
Quest. 142. What is the best Method of a true Catechism or Summ of Theology?
Answ. God willing I shall tell the Church my opinion of that at large in a peculiar Latin Treatise, called, Methodus Theologiae, which here I cannot do. Only I shall say, that among all the great variety of Methods used in these times, I think none cometh nearer the Order of the Matter (which is the true Commendation of a Method) than those which open Theology, 1. In the breviate of the Baptismal Covenant. 2. In the three explicatory sums, the Creed, Lords Prayer, and Decalogue, with the added Gospel Precepts. 3. In the Largest form, which is the whole Scripture: And that our common English Catechism, and Paraeus or Ursine, and many such who use that common easy Method, are more truly Methodical, than most that pretend to greater accu[…]ness (Though I much commend the great industry of such as Dudley, Fenner, Gomarrus, and […]cially George Sohenius.)