A26892:7526
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. 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.
5. And specially if Authority command it, and the Churches Agreement require it, as a signification what doctrine it is which they profess.
6. Or if the Churches Necessities require it; As if they have no Minister, or no one that can do so much to their Edification any other way.