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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. Neither Magistrate nor Bishop, as is said, may deny the Church or people any Liberty which God in Nature, or Christ in the Gospel hath settled on them, as to the Reception of their proper Pastors.
3. Neither Magistrate nor Bishop, as is said, may deny the Church or people any Liberty which God in Nature, or Christ in the Gospel hath setled on them, as to the Reception of their proper Pastors.
4. No Bishop, but only the Magistrate can compel by the Sword, the obedience of his commands.
4. No Bishop, but only the Magistrate can compell by the Sword, the obedience of his commands.
5. If one of them command the reception of a worthy person, and the other of an intolerable one, the former must prevail, because of obedience to Christ, and care of our souls.
6. But if the persons be equal, or both fit, the Magistrate is to be obeyed, if he be peremptory in his commands, and decide the case in order to the peace or protection of the Church; both because it is a lawful thing, and because else he will permit no other.