A26879:1683
The catechizing of families a teacher of householders how to teach their householdsThe catechizing of families a teacher of housholders how to teach their housholds
The catechizing of families a teacher of householders how to teach their households : useful also to school-masters and tutors of youth : for those that are past the common small catechisms [sic], and would grow to a more rooted faith, and to the fuller understanding of all that is commonly needful to a safe, holy comfortable and profitable life / written by Richard Baxter ...The catechizing of families a teacher of housholders how to teach their housholds : useful also to school-masters and tutors of youth : for those that are past the common small chatechisms [sic], and would grow to a more rooted faith, and to the fuller understanding of all that is commonly needful to a safe, holy comfortable and profitable life / written by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for T. Parkhurst, 1683
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. That all mans Power is limited by God and ⟨p. 314⟩subordinate to his universal Government and Laws, and he hath given none Authority against himself or his Laws.
5. That so far as Gods Laws have not determined of the species and Degrees of Power, they must be known by the humane Contracts or Consent which found them.
6. Nations have by Nature a right to self-preservation against destroying Enemies and Murderers.
7. And when they only seek to save themselves against such, they resist not Governing Authority.
8. But particular persons must patiently bear even wrongful destruction by Governors: And whole Nations tolerable injuries, rather than by Rebellions and Wars to seek their own preservation or right, to the hurt of the Common-wealth.