A26892:7767
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.
2. The Scriptures are sufficient for their proper use, which is to be a Law of Faith and Life, if they be understood. But 1. They are not sufficient for that which they were never intended for: 2. And we may by other Books be greatly helped in understanding them.
2. The Scriptures are sufficient for their proper use, which is to be a Law of Faith and Life, if they be understood. But 1. They are not sufficient for that which they were never intended for: 2. And we may by other Books be greatly helpt in understanding them.
3. If other Books were not needful, Teachers were not needful: For Writing is but the most advantageous way of Teaching, by fixed Characters, which fly not from our memory as transient words do. And who is it that understandeth the Scriptures that never had a Teacher? And why said the Eunuch, [How should I (understand what I read) unless some man guide me?] Acts 8. 31. And why did Christ set Teachers in his Church to the end, till it be perfected, Eph. 4. 11, 12, 13. if they must not Teach the Church unto the end? Therefore they may write unto the end.
3. If other Books were not needful, Teachers were not needful: For Writing is but the most advantagious way of Teaching, by fixed Characters, which flye not from our memory as transient words do. And who is it that understandeth the Scriptures that never had a Teacher? And why said the Eunuch, [How should I (understand what I read) unless some man guide me?] Acts 8. 31. And why did Christ set Teachers in his Church to the end, till it be perfected, Eph. 4. 11, 12, 13. if they must not Teach the Church unto the end? Therefore they may write unto the end.