A26892:8146
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.
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.
2. The Faculty or Judgement is not capable of being the Object or Materia ad quam, the thing to which we are bound. A man is not bound to be a man, or to have an Intellect, but is made such.
2. The Faculty or Iudgement is not capable of being the Object or Materia ad quam, the thing to which we are bound. A man is not bound to be a man, or to have an Intellect, but is made such.
3. The Faculty of Conscience (that is the Intellect) is not capable of being the immediate or nearest subjectum quod, or subject obliged. The reason is, Because the Intellect of it self is not a free-working faculty, but acteth necessarily per modum naturae, further than it is under the Empire of the Will: And therefore Intellectual and Moral habits are by all men distinguished.