A26892:7904
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.
Think not by the title of this Part, that I am doing the same work which I lately revoked in my Political Aphorisms: Though I concluded that Book to be quasi non scriptum, I told you I recanted not the Doctrine of it, which is for the Empire of God, and the Interest of Government, Order and honesty in the World: This is no place to give you the Reasons of my revocation, besides that it offended my Superiors, and exercised the tongues of some in places, where other matters would be more profitable: Pass by all that concerneth our particular State and Times, and you may know by that what principles of Policy I judge Divine. And experience teacheth me, that it is best for men of my Profession to meddle with no more; but leave it to the Contzeus, the Arnisaeus's and other Jesuits, to promote their cause by Voluminous politics: The Popes false-named Church, is a Kingdom, and his Ministers may write of Politics more congruously, and (it seems) with less offence than we. Saith the Geographia Nubiensis aptly [There is a certain King dwelling at Rome called the Pope] &c. when he goeth to describe him. Nothing well suites with our function but the pure Doctrine of Salvation. Let States-men and Lawyers mind the rest.
THink not by the title of this Part, that I am doing the same work which I lately revoked in my Political Aphorisms: Though I concluded that Book to be quasi non scriptum, I told you I recanted not the Doctrine of it, which is for the Empire of God, and the Interest of Government, Order and honesty in the World: This is no place to give you the Reasons of my revocation, besides that it offended my Superiours, and exercised the tongues of some in places, where other matters would be more profitable: Pass by all that concerneth our particular State and Times, and you may know by that what principles of Policy I judge Divine. And experience teacheth me, that it is best for men of my Profession to meddle with no more; but leave it to the Contzeus, the Arnisaeus's and other Jesuits, to promote their cause by Voluminous politicks: The Popes false-named Church, is a Kingdom, and his Ministers may write of Politicks more congruously, and (it seems) with less offence than we. Saith the Geographia Nubiensis aptly [There is a certain King dwelling at Rome called the Pope] &c. when he goeth to describe him. Nothing well suites with our function but the pure Doctrine of Salvation. Let States-men and Lawyers mind the rest.