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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.
§. 8. Prop. 7. God hath neither in nature or Scripture, estated this Power of Government, in whole or1 in part, upon the people of a mere Community, (much less on Subjects) whether Noble or Ignoble, 2Learned or unlearned, the part of the Community, or the whole body, Real or Representative: The people as such, have not this Power, either to Use or to Give: But the absolute Sovereign of all the world, doth communicate the Sovereign power in every Kingdom or other sort of Common-wealth from himself Immediately: I say, Immediately; not without the Mediation of an Instrument signifying his will: for the Law of Nature and Scripture are his Instrument, and the Charter of Authority: nor yet so Immediately as without any kind of medium; for the Consent and Nomination of the Community before expressed, may be Conditio sine qua non, so far as aforesaid. But it is so Immediately from God, as that there is no immediate Recipient, to receive the power first from God, and convey it to the Sovereign.
§. 8. Prop. 7. God hath neither in nature or Scripture, estated this Power of Government, in whole or1 in part, upon the people of a meer Community, (much less on Subjects) whether Noble or Ignoble, 2Learned or unlearned, the part of the Community, or the whole body, Real or Representative: The people as such, have not this Power, either to Use or to Give: But the absolute Soveraign of all the world, doth communicate the Soveraign power in every Kingdom or other sort of Common-wealth from himself Immediately: I say, Immediately; not without the Mediation of an Instrument signifying his will: for the Law of Nature and Scripture are his Instrument, and the Charter of Authority: nor yet so Immediately as without any kind of medium; for the Consent and Nomination of the Community before expressed, may be Conditio sine qua non, so far as aforesaid. But it is so Immediately from God, as that there is no immediate Recipient, to receive the power first from God, and convey it to the Soveraign.
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