A26892:8144
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. 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).
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 custome) improperly, for the Person himself, that doth Conscire; or for his Will, (another faculty).
3 The Conscience may be said to be bound, 1. Subjectively, as the subjectum quod, or the faculty obliged; 2. Or Objectively, as Conscire, the Act of Conscience, is the thing ad quod, to which we are obliged.
And upon these necessary distinctions I thus answer to the first question.
Prop. 1 The Act or the Habit of Conscience are not capable of being the subject obliged; no more than any other act or duty: The Act or duty is not bound, but the man to the act or duty.