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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.
§. 55. Direct. 26. Refuse not to swear Allegiance to your lawful Sovereign. Though Oaths are1 fearful, and not to be taken without weighty cause, yet are they not to be refused when the cause is weighty, as here it is: Must the Sovereign be sworn to do his Office for you, and must he undertake so hard and perilous a charge for you, which he is no way able to go through, if his Subjects be not faithful to him? and shall those Subjects refuse to promise and swear fidelity? This is against all reason and equity.
§. 55. Direct. 26. Refuse not to swear Allegiance to your lawful Soveraign. Though Oaths are1 fearful, and not to be taken without weighty cause, yet are they not to be refused when the cause is weighty, as here it is: Must the Soveraign be sworn to do his Office for you, and must he undertake so hard and perillous a charge for you, which he is no way able to go through, if his Subjects be not faithful to him? and shall those Subjects refuse to promise and swear fidelity? This is against all reason and equity.
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§. 56. Direct. 27. Think not that either the Pope or any power in the world, can dispense with this 1your Oath, or absolve you from the bond of it, or save you from the punishment due from God to the perjured and perfidious. Of this see what I have written before against Perjury.
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