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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.
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.
If a Soldier voluntarily list himself under the Kings General, or other Commanders; he doth but choose the man that shall command him, but it is the Kings Commission that giveth him the power to command those that voluntarily so list themselves. And if the authority be abused or forfeited, it is not into the Soldiers hands, but into the Kings.
If a Souldier voluntarily list himself under the Kings General, or other Commanders; he doth but choose the man that shall command him, but it is the Kings Commission that giveth him the power to command those that voluntarily so list themselves. And if the authority be abused or forfeited, it is not into the Souldiers hands, but into the Kings.
§. 7. Prop. 6. The Constituting-Consent or Contract of Ancestors obligeth all their posterity, if 1they will have any of the protection or other benefit of Government, to stand to the constitution: Else Governments should be so unsettled and mutable as to be uncapable of their proper End.
§. 7. Prop. 6. The Constituting-Consent or Contract of Ancestors obligeth all their posterity, if 1they will have any of the protection or other benefit of Government, to stand to the constitution: Else Governments should be so unsetled and mutable as to be uncapable of their proper End.
- 1Prop. 6.
§. 8. Prop. 7. God hath neither in nature or Scripture, estated this Power of Government, in whole or