A26892:8149
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.
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.
4. All Legal or Moral Obligation falleth directly upon the Will only; and so upon the Person as a Voluntary agent: So that it is proper to say, The Will is bound, and The Person is bound.
5 Improperly and remotely it may be said, The Intellect (or faculty of Conscience) is bound, or the tongue, or hand, or foot is bound; as the Man is bound to use them.
6. Though it be not proper to say, that the Conscience is bound, it is proper to say, that the Man is bound to the Act and Habit of Conscience, or to the exercise of the faculty.