A26892:7338
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.
Quest. 132. Is it unlawful to obey in all those cases, where it is unlawful to impose and command? Or in what cases? And how far Pastors must be believed and obeyed?
Answ. I Must entreat the Reader carefully to distinguish here, 1. Between Gods Law forbidding Rulers to do evil, and his Law forbidding Subjects or private men.
Answ. I Must intreat the Reader carefully to distinguish here, 1. Between Gods Law forbidding Rulers to do evil, and his Law forbidding Subjects or private men.
2. Between Obedience formally so called; which is, when we therefore obey in conscience, because it is commanded, and the commanders Authority is the Formal Reason and object of our obedience, And Obedience Material only, which is properly no obedience, but a doing the thing which is commanded upon other Reasons, and not at all because it is commanded.
3. Between Formal obedience to the Office of the Ruler in General, and formal obedience to him, as commanding this very Matter in particular.