A26892:8150
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.
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.
7. The common meaning of the phrase, that we are [bound in conscience] o• that [conscience is bound] is that [we are bound to a thing by God,] or [by a Divine obligation] and that it is [a fin against God to violate it]: So that Divines use here to take the word Conscience in the narrower Theological sense, as respect to Gods Law and Judgement doth enter the definition of it.
7. The common meaning of the phrase, that we are [bound in conscience] o• that [conscience is bound] is that [we are bound to a thing by God,] or [by a Divine obligation] and that it is [a fin against God to violate it]: So that Divines use here to take the word Conscience in the narrower Theological sense, as respect to Gods Law and Iudgement doth enter the definition of it.