A26892:7485
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.
1. This was the case of all the Christians (as to the New Testament) who lived before it was written: And there are several Articles of the Creed now necessary, which the Old Testament doth not reveal.1
2. This may be the case of thousands in Ignorant Countries where the Bible being rare, is to most unknown.
2. This may be the case of thousands in Ignorant Countreys where the Bible being rare, is to most unknown.
3. This may be the case of thousands of Children who are taught their Creed and Catechism, before they understand what the Bible is.
4. This may be the case of thousands among the Papists, where some perverse Priests do keep not only the Reading, but the Knowledge of the Scriptures from the people, for fear lest they should be taught to resolve their faith into it; and do teach them only the Articles of Faith and Catechism, as known by the Churches tradition alone.