A26892:7881
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.
Actus Conventus Thorunensis: Formula Concordiae Germ: The Westminster Assemblies Acts. English Canons: Fasti Siculi: Morini exercit. Eccles.
Zepper. Polit. Eccles. Hammond, Le strange of Liturgies: Antiq•itates Liturgicae: Cassanders Works: Claud. Sainctes; Gavantus de Ritibus; Vicecomes.
XVIII. More of the Fathers I need not name: If you can get and read them, you may find their names; e. g. in Bellarmin. de Script. Eccles. Get the Bibliothec. Patrum of de la Bigne, and Macarius Hom. Ephrem Sinus, (plain honest things) Theodoret, Cyril Hieros. Cyril Alexand. Isidore Pelusiota, Theophilact & Occumenius, S•dulius & Primasius, Remigius, Bede, &c. But many of them are very weak and dry. The chief use of the Fathers is to know Historically what Doctrine was then taught.
XVIII. More of the Fathers I need not name: If you can get and read them, you may find their names; e. g. in Bellarmin. de Script. Eccles. Get the Bibliothec. Patrum of de la Bigne, and Macarius Hom. Ephrem Sy•us, (plain honest things) Theodoret, Cyril Hieros. Cyril Alexand. Isidore Pelusiota, Theophilact & Occumenius, S•dulius & Primasius, Remigius, Beda, &c. But many of them are very weak and dry. The chief use of the Fathers is to know Historically what Doctrine was then taught.