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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.
§. 12. Object. 1. But (saith worthy Mr. Richard Hooker) Eccl. Pol. l. 1. §. 10. p. 21. [That which1 2we spake of the power of Government, must here be applied to the power of making Laws, whereby to govern: which power God hath over all; and by the Natural Law whereto he hath made all subject, the lawful power of making Laws to command whole politic societies of men, belongeth so properly to the same entire societies, that for any Prince or Potentate of what kind soever upon earth, to exercise the same of himself, and not either by express Commission immediately and personally received from God, or else by Authority derived at first from their Consent, upon whose persons they impose Laws, it is no better than mere Tyranny. Laws they are not therefore, which public approbation hath not made so.]
§. 12. Object. 1. But (saith worthy Mr. Richard Hooker) Eccl. Pol. l. 1. §. 10. p. 21. [That which1 2we spake of the power of Government, must here be applyed to the power of making Laws, whereby to govern: which power God hath over all; and by the Natural Law whereto he hath made all subject, the lawful power of making Laws to command whole politick societies of men, belongeth so properly to the same entire societies, that for any Prince or Potentate of what kind soever upon earth, to exercise the same of himself, and not either by express Commission immediately and personally received from God, or else by Authority derived at first from their Consent, upon whose persons they impose Laws, it is no better than meer Tyranny. Laws they are not therefore, which publick approbation hath not made so.]
- 1Object. 1.
- 2So p. 23. The same error of the Original of Power hath Acosta l. 2. c. 5. p. •08. with many other Jesuits and Papists.So p. 23. The same error of the Original of Power hath Acosta l. 2. c. 5. p. 08. with many other esuites and Papists.