A26892:7632
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.
1. That the Spirit in it self is infinitely more excellent than the Scripture. For the Spirit is God, and the Scripture is but the work of God.
2. The operation of the Spirit in the Apostles was more excellent than the operation of the same Spirit now in us; As producing more excellent effects, and more infallible.
3. Therefore the holy Scriptures which were the infallible dictates of the Spirit in the Apostles,1 are more perfect than any of our apprehensions which come by the same Spirit (which we have not in so great a measure).
4. Therefore we must not try the Scriptures by our most spiritual apprehensions, but our apprehensions