A26892:8141
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.
Tit. 2. A fuller resolution of the Cases, 1. Whether the Laws of men do bind the Conscience: 2. Especially smaller and Penal Laws?
The word [Conscience] signifieth either 1. In general according to the notation of the word, The knowledge of our own matters; Conscire; The knowledge of our selves, our duties, our faults, our fears, our hopes, our diseases, &c. 2. Or more limitedly and narrowly, The knowledge of our selves and our own matters in relation to Gods Law and Judgement: Judicium hominis de seipso prout subjicitur judicio Dei, as Amesius defineth it.
THe word [Conscience] signifieth either 1. In general according to the notation of the word, The knowledge of our own matters; Conscire; The knowledge of our selves, our duties, our faults, our fears, our hopes, our diseases, &c. 2. Or more limitedly and narrowly, The knowledge of our selves and our own matters in relation to Gods Law and Iudgement: Iudicium hominis de seipso prout subjicitur judicio Dei, as Amesius defineth it.
2. Conscience is taken, 1. Sometime for the Act of self-knowing: 2. Sometime for the Habit: 3. Sometime for the Faculty, that is, for the Intellect it self, as it is a faculty of self-knowing. In all these senses it is taken properly. 2. And sometimes it is used (by custom) improperly, for the Person himself, that doth Conscire; or for his Will, (another faculty).