A26892:7553
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. It is not only without any authority given them by Christ, that they exact such Oaths, but1 also contrary to the great humility, lowliness and condescension, in which he describeth his Ministers, who must be Great, by being the servants of all.
4. And it tendeth to corrupt the Clergy for the future.
5. And such new impositions give just reason to Princes and to the People to suspect, that the Presbyters are aspiring after some inordinate exaltation, or have some ill project for the advancement of themselves.