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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.
§. 20. Object. 9. Lib. 8. p. 220. [It is a thing even undoubtedly natural that all free and independent1 societies should themselves make their own Laws; and that this power should belong to the whole, not to any certain part of a politic body—]
§. 20. Object. 9. Lib. 8. p. 220. [It is a thing even undoubtedly natural that all free and independent1 societies should themselves make their own Laws; and that this power should belong to the whole, not to any certain part of a politick body—]
- 1Object. 9.
Answ. This is oft affirmed, but no proof at all of it: In many Nations the Representatives of the whole Body have the Legislative power, or part of it. But that is from the special constitution of that particular Common-wealth, and not from Nature, nor common to all Nations. All that naturally belongeth to the people as such, was but to choose their Law-makers, and secure their liberties, and not to make Laws themselves by themselves, or mere representers.
Answ. This is oft affirmed, but no proof at all of it: In many Nations the Representatives of the whole Body have the Legislative power, or part of it. But that is from the special constitution of that particular Common-wealth, and not from Nature, nor common to all Nations. All that naturally belongeth to the people as such, was but to choose their Law-makers, and secure their liberties, and not to make Laws themselves by themselves, or meer representers.