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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.
§. 16. Object. 5. Saith the Reverend Author lib. 8. p. 194. [Neither can any man with reason think,1 but that the first institution of Kings, (a sufficient consideration wherefore their power should always depend on that from which it did always flow) by original influence of power from the Body into the King, is the cause of Kings dependency in power upon the body: By dependency we mean subordination and subjection.] ☜
§. 16. Object. 5. Saith the Reverend Author lib. 8. p. 194. [Neither can any man with reason think,1 but that the first institution of Kings, (a sufficient consideration wherefore their power should alwayes depend on that from which it did alwayes flow) by original influence of power from the Body into the King, is the cause of Kings dependency in power upon the body: By dependency we mean subordination and subjection.] ☜
- 1Object. 5.
Answ. 1. But it their institution in genere was of God, and that give them their power, and it never 1flowed from the Body at all, then all your superstructure falleth with your ground-work. 2. And here you seem plainly to confound all Kingdoms by turning the pars imperans into the pars subdita, & vice versa: If the King be subject, how are they his subjects? I will not infer what this will ⟨p. 12⟩lead them to do, when they are taught that Kings are in subordination and subjection to them. Sad experience hath showed us what this very principle would effect.
Answ. 1. But it their institution in genere was of God, and that give them their power, and it never