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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.
§. 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 2dislike of Monarchy, and the Love of popular liberty into your minds.
§. 75. Obj. 3. For Historians, say they, Be but well verst 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 2dislike of Monarchy, and the Love of popular liberty into your minds.
- 1Object. 3.
- 2So Hollingshead maketh Parliaments so mighty as to take down the greatest Kings, &c.
Answ. It must be considered in what times and places the ancient Greek and Roman Historians did1 live. They that lived where popular Government was in force and credit, wrote according to the time and Government which they lived under: yet do they extol the virtues and heroic acts of Monarchs, and often speak of the vulgar giddiness and unconstancy. And for my part I think he that readeth in them those popular tumults, irrationalities, furies, unconstancies, cruelties, which even2