A26892:6852
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. We must do ••y Lawful thing to procure the Magistrates Licence to Preach in his Dominions.
9. All men silenced or forbidden by Magistrates to Preach, are no• thereby obliged or warranted to forbear. Fo•, •. The Apostles expressly determine it, Act. 4. 19. Whether it be better to hearken to God rather than to you, judge ye. 2. Christ o•• foretold his servants, that they must Preach against the will of Rulers, and suffer by them. 3. The Apostles and ordinary Ministers also for 300 years after Christ did generally preach against the Magistrates will, throughout the Roman Empire and the World. 4. The Orthodox Bishops commonly took themselves bound to Preach when Arian or other Heretical Emperors forbade them. 5. A moral duty of stated necessity to the Church and mens salvation is no• subjected to the will of men for Order sake: For Order is for the thing Ordered and for the End. Magistrates cannot dispense with us, for not Loving our Neighbours, or not showing mercy to the poor, o• saving the lives of the ne•dy in […] and di••ress. Else they that at last shall hear, I was hungry a•d y• •••• m• not▪ I was n•ked and ye […] •••• •••• ▪ I was in prison and ye visited me not, might oft say, […] […] Magistrates for bad s. Yet a lssr Moral duty may be forbidden by the Magistrate for the sake of a greater, because then it is no duty indeed, and may be forborne if he forbid it not; As to save one man li, i it would prove the death of a multitude or to save one mans house on […], […] […] o wol any. Therefore,