A26892:7665
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.
16. And those that Jewishly feign a multitude of unproved mysteries to lye in the Letters, Orders, ⟨p. 913⟩Numbers and proper Names in Scriptures, (though I deny not that there is much mystery which we little observe).
16. And those that Jewishly feign a multitude of unproved mysteries to lye in the Letters, Orders, ⟨p. 913⟩Numbers and proper Names in Scriptures, (though I deny not that there is much mysterie which we little observe).
17. They that say that the Scripture is all so plain, that there is no obscure or difficult passages in them, which men are in danger of wresting to their own destruction.
18. And they that say, that All in the Scripture is so necessary to salvation (even the darkest Prophecies,)1 that they cannot be saved that understand them not all; or at least endeavour not studiously and particularly to understand them.