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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.
§. 74. Obj. 2. For Lawyers they say, that 1. Civilians set up reason so high, that they dangerously1 measure the power of Monarchs by it: In so much that the most famous pair of zealous and learned defenders of Monarchy, Barclay and Grotius, do assign many cases in which it is lawful to resist Princes by arms, and more than so. 2. And the Common-Lawyers, they say, are all for the Law, and ready to say as Hooker, [Lex facit Regem,] and what power the King hath he hath it by Law: the bounds are known: p. 218. he is, Singulis major, & universis minor, &c.
- 1Leg. quae de Grotio post p. 731.
Answ. 1. Sure the Roman Civil Laws were not against Monarchy, when Monarchs made so many1 of them. And what Power Reason truly hath, it hath from God, whom none can over-top: and that which reason is abused unjustly to defend, may be well contradicted by Reason indeed. 2. And what power the Laws of the Land have, they have by the Kings Consent and Act: And it is strange impudency to pretend that his own Laws are against him. If any mis-interpret them, he may be confuted.
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§. 75. Obj. 3. For Historians, say they, Be but well versed in ancient History, Greek and Roman, 1and you shall find them speak so ill of Monarchy, and so much for popularity, and liberty, and magnifying so much the defenders of the peoples liberty against Monarchs, that it will secretly steal the