A26892:7477
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. 145. May not a man be saved that believeth all the Essentials of Religion, as Coming to him by Verbal Tradition, and not as contained in the holy Scriptures, which perhaps he never knew?
Answ. 1. HE that believeth shall be saved, which way ever he cometh by his belief: So be it it be sound as to the object and act; that is, If it contain all the Essentials, and they be predominantly Believed, Loved and practised.
2. The Scriptures being the Records of Christs Doctrine delivered by Himself, his Spirit and his Apostles, it is the Office of Ministers, and the duty of all Instructors to open these Scriptures to those they teach, and to deliver particulars upon the authority of these Inspired sealed Records which contain them.
2. The Scriptures being the Records of Christs Doctrine delivered by Himself, his Spirit and his Apostles, it is the Office of Ministers, and the duty of all Instructers to open these Scriptures to those they teach, and to deliver particulars upon the authority of these Inspired sealed Records which contain them.
3. They that thus receive particular truths, from a Teacher explaining the Scripture to them, do receive them in a subordination to the Scripture Materially, and as to the Teachers part; though not formally and as to their own part: And though the Scripture authority being not understood by them, be not the formal object of their faith, but only Gods authority in general.