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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.
Part 3 › Question 169: Quest. 169. How doth the Holy Ghost set Bishops over the Churches?
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.
Quest. 169. How doth the Holy Ghost set Bishops over the Churches?
Answ. 1. BY making the Office it self, so far as the Apostles had any hand in it, Christ himself1 having made their Office.
2. The Holy Ghost in the Electors and Ordainers directeth them to discern the fitness of the persons1 elected and ordained, and so to call such as God approveth of, and calleth by the Holy Ghost in them. Which was done, 1. By the extraordinary gift of discerning in the Apostles. 2. By the ordinary help of Gods Spirit in the wise and faithful Electors and Ordainers ever since.
- 1Acts 1. 24. Act. 13. 2. & 15. 28, &c. & 14. •3.