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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.
§. 81. Obj. 3. Christianity teacheth men to obey the Scriptures before their Governors, and to obey no1 Law that is contrary to the Bible: And when the Bible is so large, and hath so many passages hard to be understood, and easily perverted, some of these will be always interpreted against the Laws of men: And then they are taught to fear no man against God, and to endure any pains or death, and to be unmoved by all the penalties which should enforce obedience: and to rejoice in this as a blessed martyrdom,2 to the face of Kings, and th•se that punish them are reproached as persecutors, and threatened with damnation, and made the vilest men on earth, and represented odious to all.
§. 81. Obj. 3. Christianity teacheth men to obey the Scriptures before their Governours, and to obey no1 Law that is contrary to the Bible: And when the Bible is so large, and hath so many passages hard to be understood, and easily perverted, some of these will be alwayes interpreted against the Laws of men: And then they are taught to fear no man against God, and to endure any pains or death, and to be unmoved by all the penalties which should enforce obedience: and to rejoyce in this as a blessed martyrdom,2 to the face of Kings, and th•se that punish them are reproached as persecutors, and threatned with damnation, and made the vilest men on earth, and represented odious to all.
- 1Object. 3.
- 2Le Blank in his Travails, pag. 88. saith of some Heathen Kings, They are all jealous of our Religion, holding that the Christians adore one God, great above the rest, that will not suffer any others, and that he sets a greater esteem and value upon innocent poor and simple people, than upon the rich, Kings, and Princes, and that Princes had need to preserve to themselves, the affections and esteem of their subjects, to reign with greater ease.