A26892:7951
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.
§. 8. Memorand. 8. Endeavour the Unity and Concord of all the Churches and Christians that are1 under your Government, and that upon the terms which all Christs Churches have sometime been united in: that is; In the Holy Scriptures implicitly as the General Rule: In the ancient Creeds explicitly as the sum of our Credenda; and in the Lords Prayer as the summary of our Expetenda, and in the Decalogue as the summary of our Agenda; supposing that we live in peaceable Obedience to our Governors, whose Laws must rule us not only in things Civil, but in the Ordering of those circumstances of Worship and discipline, which God hath left to their determination.
§. 8. Memorand. 8. Endeavour the Unity and Concord of all the Churches and Christians that are1 under your Government, and that upon the terms which all Christs Churches have sometime been united in: that is; In the Holy Scriptures implicitly as the General Rule: In the ancient Creeds explicitly as the sum of our Credenda; and in the Lords Prayer as the summary of our Expetenda, and in the Decalogue as the summary of our Agenda; supposing that we live in peaceable Obedience to our Governours, whose Laws must rule us not only in things Civil, but in the Ordering of those circumstances of Worship and discipline, which God hath left to their determination.
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§. 9. Memorand. 9. Let all things in Gods Worship be done to Edification, decently and in Order,1 and the body honour God as well as the soul: But yet see that the Ornaments or garments of Religion, be never used against the substance; but that Holiness, Unity, Charity and Peace, have alway the precedency.
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