A26892:7524
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.
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.
2. So be it they be not read scandalously without sufficient differencing them from Gods Book.
3. So they be not Read to exclude or hinder the Reading of the Scriptures, or any other necessary Church-duty.
4. So they be not Read to keep up an ignorant lazy Ministry that can or will do no better; nor to exercise the Ministers sloth, and hinder him from preaching.