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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
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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.
7. It greatly concerneth all sober Christians therefore to be well studied in the Law of God, that we may certainly know what those things are which God hath absolutely forbidden us to do, whoever command them, and to distinguish them from things that depend on mutable accidents: That as the three Witnesses, and Daniel, Dan. 3. & 6. we may be true to God whatever we suffer for it; and yet may obey men in all •hat is our duty to them.
Thus the Apostles knew that no man had power from God to silence them, or persecute them for the Gospel. Therefore they would not obey those that forbade them to Preach: And yet they would appear before any Magistrate that commanded them, and obey their […]; And so we may do even to an Usurper, or a private man.
Thus the Apostles knew that no man had power from God to silence them, or persecute them for the Gospel. Therefore they would not obey those that forbad them to Preach: And yet they would appear before any Magistrate that commanded them, and obey their 〈…〉; And so we may do even to an Usurper, or a private man.
8. The principal and most notable Case, in which we must obey when a Rule• sinfully commandeth is, when the matter which he commandeth is not such as is either forbidden us by God, or out of the Verge of his place and calling at all to meddle with and command, nor yet such as is destructive of our duty to God; but such as in General belongeth to his office to determine of according to Gods general Rules; but he misseth it in the manner and goeth against those Rules; yet not so far as to destroy the duty we owe to God, or the end of it.