A26892:7741
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.
§. 12. Direct. 8. Be sure in all your progress that you keep a distinct knowledge of things certain and things uncertain, searchable and unsearchable, revealed and unrevealed; And lay the first as your foundation, yea rather keep the knowledge of them as your Science of Physic by it self, and let no obscurity in the rest cause you to question certain things; nor ever be so perverse as to try things known, by things unknown, and to argue à minùs notis. Lay no stress on small or doubtful things.
§. 12. Direct. 8. Be sure in all your progress that you keep a distinct knowledge of things certain and things uncertain, searchable and unsearchable, revealed and unrevealed; And lay the first as your foundation, yea rather keep the knowledge of them as your Science of Physick by it self, and let no obscurity in the rest cause you to question certain things; nor ever be so perverse as to try things known, by things unknown, and to argue à minùs notis. Lay no stress on small or doubtful things.
§. 13. Direct. 9. Metaphysics as now taken is a mixture of Organical and Real Knowledge; And part of it belongeth to Logic (the Organical part), and the rest is Theology, and Pneumatology, and the highest parts of Ontology, or Real Science.
§. 13. Direct. 9. Metaphysicks as now taken is a mixture of Organical and Real Knowledge; And part of it belongeth to Logick (the Organical part), and the rest is Theologie, and Pneumatologie, and the highest parts of Ontologie, or Real Science.
§. 14. Direct. 10. In studying Philosophy, 1. See that you neither neglect any helps of those that have gone before you, under pretence of taking nothing upon trust, and of studying the naked Things themselves: (For if every man must begin all a new, as if he had been the first Philosopher, knowledge will make but small proficiency) 2. Nor yet stick not in the bare Belief of any Author whatsoever, but study all things in their naked natures and proper evidences though by the helps that are afforded you by others. For it is not science but humane belief, else, whoever you take it from.