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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. That Christs Apostles were in a state of salvation before they believed the Articles of Christs dying for sin, his Resurrection, Ascension, the giving of the Holy Ghost, and Christs coming to judgement, as they are now to be believed.
3. That all the faithful before Christs coming were saved by a more general faith than the1 Apostles had, as not being Terminated in This person, Jesus, as the Messiah, but only expected the Messiah to come.
3. That all the faithful before Christs coming were saved by a more general faith than the1 Apostles had, as not being Terminated in This person, Iesus, as the Messiah, but only expected the Messiah to come.
- 1(2) Joh. 5. •, &c. 9. 12, &c. Mat. 16. 22. Joh. 12. 16. Luk. 18. 34.
4. That as more articles are necessary to those that have the Gospel than to those that have it not, and to those since Christs Incarnation that hear of him, than to the Jews before, so before, there were more things necessary even to those Jews (that had a shorter Creed than that which the Apostles believed