A26892:7571
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
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Quest. 156. Must we believe that Moses Law did ever bind other Nations; or that any other parts of the Scripture bound them, or belonged to them? or that the Jews were all Gods Visible Church on Earth?
Quest. 156. Must we believe that Moses Law did ever bind other Nations; or that any other parts of the Scripture bound them, or belonged to them? or that the Iews were all Gods Visible Church on Earth?
Answ. I Conjoin these three Questions for dispatch. I. 1. Some of the Matter of Moses Law did1 bind all Nations, that is, The Law of nature as such. 2. Those that had the knowledge of the Jewish Law, were bound •ollaterally to believe and obey all the expositions of the Law of nature in it, and all the Laws, which were given upon reasons common to all the world (As about degrees of Marriage, particular rules of Justice, &c.) As if I heard God from Heaven tell another that standeth by me, [Thou shalt not marry thy fathers Widow; for it is abominable.] I ought to apply that to me, being his subject which is spoken to another on a common reason.
Answ. I Conjoyn these three Questions for dispatch. I. 1. Some of the Matter of Moses Law did1 bind all Nations, that is, The Law of nature as such. 2. Those that had the knowledge of the Jewish Law, were bound •ollaterally to believe and obey all the expositions of the Law of nature in it, and all the Laws, which were given upon reasons common to all the world (As about degrees of Marriage, particular rules of Justice, &c.) As if I heard God from Heaven tell another that standeth by me, [Thou shalt not marry thy fathers Widow; for it is abominable.] I ought to apply that to me, being his subject which is spoken to another on a common reason.