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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.
3. And they that •eign it to be fully sufficient to all men to prove its own authority and truth, without1 the subsidiary use of that Church-History and Tradition, which telleth us the supposed Matters of fact, and must help us to know what Books are Canonical, and what not; and without historical evidence, that these are the true Books which the Prophets and Apostles wrote, and the Miracles and Providences which have attested them.
4. And those that think that it is sufficient for its own promulgation, or the peoples instruction, 1without the Ministry of man to preserve, deliver, translate, expound and preach it to the people.
- 1Ephes. 4. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. John 6. •3. Rom. 8. 9. 1 John 3. 24. John 3. 5, 6. Many Romish Priests and others do so.