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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.
§. 73. Obj. 1. The Painters of the Leviathan scorn all Politics, as ignorant of the power of Monarchs,1 except the Atheistical inventions of their own brains. And the adversaries of Monarchy say, The reading of Politics will satisfy men against Monarchy: For in them you ordinarily find that the Majestas Realis is in the people, and the Majestas personalis in the Prince: that the Prince receiveth all his power from the people, to whom it is first given, and to whom it may be forfeited and es•heat: with much more of the like, as is to be seen in Politicians of all Religions.2
§. 73. Obj. 1. The Painters of the Leviathan scorn all Politicks, as ignorant of the power of Monarchs,1 except the Atheistical inventions of their own brains. And the adversaries of Monarchy say, The reading of Politicks will satisfie men against Monarchy: For in them you ordinarily find that the Majestas Realis is in the people, and the Majestas personalis in the Prince: that the Prince receiveth all his power from the people, to whom it is first given, and to whom it may be forfeited and es•heat: with much more of the like, as is to be s•en in Politicians of all Religions.2
- 1Object. 1.
- 2Answ.
Answ. 1. It is not all Politics that go upon those principles: and one mistake in writers is no disgrace to the true doctrine of politics, which may be vindicated from such mistakes. 2. As almost all Authors of Politics take Monarchy for a lawful species of Government, so most or very many (especially of the moderns) do take it to be the most excellent sort of unmixed Government. Therefore they are no enemies to it.