A26892:7523
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.
3. If any one of the Apocryphal books, (as Judith, Tobit, Bell and the Dragon, &c.) be as fabulous false and bad as our Protestant Writers (Reignoldus, Amesius, Whitakers, Chamier, and abundance more) affirm them to be, it is not lawful ordinarily to Read them, in that honourable way as Chapters called Lessons are usually read in the assemblies. Nor is it lawful so to Read heretical, fabulous, or erroneous books.
3. If any one of the Apocryphal books, (as Iudith, Tobit, Bell and the Dragon, &c.) be as fabulous false and bad as our Protestant Writers (Reignoldus, Amesius, Whitakers, Chamier, and abundance more) affirm them to be, it is not lawful ordinarily to Read them, in that honourable way as Chapters called Lessons are usually read in the assemblies. Nor is it lawful so to Read heretical, fabulous, or erroneous books.
But it is lawful to Read publicly Apocryphal and humane Writings, Homilies, or edifying Sermons on these conditions following.
But it is lawful to Read publickly Apocryphal and humane Writings, Homilies, or edifying Sermons on these conditions following.
1. So be it they be indeed sound doctrine, holy, and fitted to the peoples edification.