A26892:8154
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.
8. Taking Conscience in this narrower sense, To ask, Whether mans Law as Mans do bind us in Conscience, 1is all one as to ask, Whether Man be God.
- 1Having spoken of this Controversy, in my Life of Faith, as an easy thing, in which I thought we were really agreed, while we seemed to differ, which I called A pitiful Case, some Brethren (who say nothing against the truth of what I said) are offended at me as speaking too confidently, and calling that so easy which Bishop Sa•der•oa and so many others did make a greater matter of: I retract the words, if they •e unsuitable either to the matter or the Readers: But as to the matter and the truth of the words, I desire the Reader but to consider how easy a case Mr. P. maketh of it Eccl. Pol. and how heinous a matter he maketh of our supposed dissent: And if after all this, it shall appear, that the Non-conformists do not at all differ from Hooker, Bilson and the generality of the Conformists in this point, let him that is willing to be represented as odious and intolerable to Rulers and to mankind, for that in which we do not differ, proceed to backbite me for saying that it is a pitiful case; and pretending that we are agreed.Having spoken of this Controversie, in my Life of Faith, as an easie thing, in which I thought we were really agreed, while we seemed to differ, which I called A pitiful Case, some B•ethren (who say nothing against the truth of what I said) are offended at me as speaking too confidently, and calling that so easie which Bishop Sa•der•oa and so many others did make a greater matter of: I retract the words, if they •e unsuittable either to the matter or the Readers: But as to the matter and the truth of the words, I desire the Reader but to consider how easie a case Mr. P. maketh of it Eccl. Pol. and how heinous a matter he maketh of our supposed dissent: And if after all this, it shall appear, that the Non-conformists do not at all differ from Hooker, Bilson and the generality of the Conformists in this point, let him that is willing to be represented as odious and intolerable to Rulrs and to mankind, for that in which we do not differ, proceed to backbite me for saying that it is a pitiful case; and pretending that we are agreed.