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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.
§. 71. Direct. 39. Take heed of the pernicious design of those Atheistical Politicians that would make 1the world believe, that all that is excellent among men, is at enmity with Monarchy, yea, and Government it self: And take heed on the other side, that the most excellent things be not turned against it by abuse.
§. 71. Direct. 39. Take heed of the per•icious design of those Atheistical Politicians that would make 1the world believe, that all that is excellent among men, is at enmity with Monarchy, yea, and Government it self: And take heed on the other side, that the most excellent things be not turned against it by abuse.
- 1Direct. 39.
Here I have two dangers to advertise you to beware: The first is of some Machiavellian pernicious principles; and the second of some erroneous unchristian practices.
§. 72. I. For the first, there are two sorts of Atheistical Politicians guilty of them. The first sort are some Atheistical flatterers, that to engage Monarchs against all that is good, would make them believe that all that is good is against them and their interest. By which means, while their design is to steal the help of Princes to cast out all that is good from the world, they are most pernicious underminers of Monarchy it self. For what readier way to set all the world against it, than to make them believe that it standeth at enmity to all that is good. These secret enemies would set up a L vithan to be the butt of common enmity and opposition.