A26892:7500
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.
Object. But many wrest the Scriptures to their own destruction, and what Heresy is not defended as1 by their authority?
Object. But many wrest the Scriptures to their own destruction, and what Heresie is not defended as1 by their authority?
- 12 Pet. 3. 1•. Psal. 19. 3, 8, 9, 10. 2 Tim. 3. 16. • Pet. 1. 23.
Answ. 1. And many thousands receive saving knowledge and grace by them: The Law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul. All Scripture is profitable to instruction, &c. to make the man of God perfect. It is the incorruptible seed by which we are born again, and the sincere milk, by which we are nourished.
2. And is it not as true, 1. That the Law of the Land is abused by every false pretender, Lawyer and Corrupt Judge? What title so bad, that is not defended in Westminster H•ll sometimes under pretence of Law? And what action so bad, that some pretend not Law for? What then? Must the Law be forbidden the common people for this?