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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.
Answ. There is a Magistrates Discipline, and a Pastoral Discipline: Discipline by the Sword is1 the Magistrates work: Discipline by the Word, is the Pastors work. And there is a Coercive Excommunication, and a Pastoral Excommunication: To command upon pain of corporal punishment, that a Heretic or Impenitent wicked man, shall forbear the Sacred Ordinances and Privileges, a Magistrate may do: But to command it only upon Divine and Spiritual penalties, belongeth to the Pastors of the Church. The Magistrate hath power over their very Pastoral work, though he have not power in it, so as to do it himself. Suppose but all the Physicians of the Nation to be of Divine Institution, with their Colleges and Hospitals, and in the similitude you will see all the difficulties resolved, and the next Question fully answered.—
Answ. There is a Magistrates Discipline, and a Pastoral Discipline: Discipline by the Sword is1 the Magistrates work: Discipline by the Word, is the Pastors work. And there is a Coercive Excommunication, and a Pastoral Excommunication: To command upon pain of corporal punishment, that a Heretick or Impenitent wicked man, shall forbear the Sacred Ordinances and Priviledges, a Magistrate may do: But to command it only upon Divine and Spiritual penalties, belongeth to the Pastors of the Church. The Magistrate hath power over their very Pastoral work, though he have not power in it, so as to do it himself. Suppose but all the Physicions of the Nation to be of Divine Institution, with their Colledges and Hospitals, and in the similitude you will see all the difficulties resolved, and the next Question fully answered.—
- 1It was somewhat far that Carolus Magnus went, to be actual Guide of all in his Chapel in Reading even in all their stops, as it is at large declared by Abbas Usperg. Chroa. p. 181.It was somewhat far that Carolus Magnus went, to be actual Guide of all in his Chappel in Reading even in all their stops, as it is at large declared by Abbas Usperg. Chroa. p. 181.