A26892:7502
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.
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?
2. Nay, what is so much abused to unrighteousness and sin as Reason it self? What Heresy or Crime do not men plead Reason for? Must Reason therefore be forbidden the Vulgar?
2. Nay, what is so much abused to unrighteousness and sin as Reason it self? What Heresie or Crime do not men plead Reason for? Must Reason therefore be forbidden the Vulgar?
3. Yea, Contrarily, this signifieth that Law and Reason are so far from being things to be forbidden men, that they are indeed those things by which Nature and Necessity have taught all the world to try and discern right from wrong, good from bad? Otherwise good and bad men would not all thus agree in pretending to them, and appealing to their decisions.
4. If many men are poisoned or killed in eating or drinking, If many mens eye sight is abused to mislead them unto sin, &c. the way is not to eat nothing but what is put into our mouths; nor to put out our eyes, or wink, and be led only by a Priest, but to use both the more cautiously, with the best advise and help that we can get.