{"id":10668,"date":"2022-12-13T00:56:56","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T00:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=10668"},"modified":"2023-05-17T07:09:54","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T07:09:54","slug":"71-precept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2022\/12\/71-precept\/","title":{"rendered":"71 Precept"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align=\"center\">PRECEPT<\/h3>\n<p class=\"drop-cap\">A rule given by a superior; a direction or command. The precepts of religion, says Saurin, are not essential as the doctrines; and religion will as certainly sink, if the morality be subverted, as if the theology be undermined. The doctrines are only proposed to us as the ground of our duty.<\/p>\n<div class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"10668\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"box-shadow:none;-webkit-box-shadow:none;-moz-box-shadow:none;\"><div class=\"bookmark-off\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRECEPT A rule given by a superior; a direction or command. The precepts of religion, says Saurin, are not essential as the doctrines; and religion will as certainly sink, if the morality be subverted, as if the theology be undermined. The doctrines are only proposed to us as the ground of our duty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":12742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1085],"tags":[1212],"class_list":["post-10668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-charles-bucks-theological-dictionary","tag-hermeneutics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10668"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16104,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10668\/revisions\/16104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}