A26892:7972
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.
Part 4 › Chapter 3: Directions for Subjects concerning their duty to their Rulers.
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.
§. 5. Prop. 4. Yet God hath left that which is commonly called the specification of Government, and some lower parts of the Matter, and Manner of exercise, undetermined, as also the Individual persons or families that shall Rule. In these three therefore it is that Communities interpose. 1. Whether the sovereignty shall be in one or two or ten, or how many, and how divided for their exercise, God hath not determined. 2. Nor hath he determined of every particular, whether the Power shall extend1 to this or that or the other thing, or not? Nor whether it shall be exercised thus or thus, by standing Courts, or temporary Judges, &c. 3. Nor hath he named the person or family that shall rule.
§. 5. Prop. 4. Yet God hath left that which is commonly called the specification of Government, and some lower parts of the Matter, and Manner of exercise, undetermined, as also the Individual persons or families that shall Rule. In these three therefore it is that Communities interpose. 1. Whether the soveraignty shall be in one or two or ten, or how many, and how divided for their exercise, God hath not determined. 2. Nor hath he determined of every particular, whether the Power shall extend1 to this or that or the other thing, or not? Nor whether it shall be exercised thus or thus, by standing Courts, or temporary Judges, &c. 3. Nor hath he named the person or family that shall rule.
- 1Grotius de Imper. sum. Potest. c. 1. p. 7, 8. Sunt qui objiciant Reges quaedam imp•rare non posse, nisi consensus Ordinum accesserit: sed hi non vident quibus in locis id juris est, ibi summum Imperium non esse penes Rege•, sed aut penes Ordines, aut certe penes id corpus, quod Rex & juncti constituunt, ut Bodinus, Suarezius, Victoria, aliique, abunde demonstratunt: Certum summum Imperium totum, & aliquid imperare non posse; ideo tantum quod alter vete• aut intercedat, plane sunt [Greek or Hebrew].Grotius de Imper. sum. Potest. c. 1. p. 7, 8. Sunt qui objiciant Reges quaedam imp•rare non posse, nisi consensus Ordinum accesserit: sed hi non vident quibus in locis id juris est, ibi summum Imperium non esse penes Rege, sed aut penes Ordines, aut certe penes id corpus, quod Rex & juncti constituunt, ut Bodinus, Suarezius, Victoria, aliique, abunde demonstratunt: Certum summum Imperium totum, & aliquid imperare non posse; ideo tantum quod alter vete aut intercedat, plane sunt .