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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.
that is, [And for those he calleth Puritans, if they detest the Kings Supremacy, they are to be detested: For they daily profess, subscribe and swear to it: And what they do, they do ingenuously; and they detest the society of Tortus in this, and Tortus himself, as a lying man, (elsewhere of others, and here of themselves) and an egregious sycophant:] By these testimonies judge what Protestants think of one another in point of loyalty.
5. And why are not all the other Christians taken into your enumeration? The Armenians, Abassins, and all the Greek Churches? whom the Papists so frequently reproach as flatterers or servile, because they still gave so much to their Emperors? Have you any pretence for your accusation as against them? Unless perhaps from the tumults which Alexandria in its greatness was much addicted to, which is nothing to the doctrine of Christianity, nor to the practice of all the rest.
5. And why are not all the other Christians taken into your enumeration? The Armenians, Abassins, and all the Greek Churches? whom the Papists so frequently reproach as flatterers or servile, because they still gave so much to their Emperours? Have you any pretence for your accusation as against them? Unless perhaps from the tumults which Alexandria in its greatness was much addicted to, which is nothing to the doctrine of Christianity, nor to the practice of all the rest.
§. 84. Having answered these cavils of the late Atheistical or Infidel Politicians, I shall next show,1 though briefly, yet by plentiful evidence, that Christianity and true Godliness is the greatest strength of Government, and bond of subjection, and means of Peace, that ever was revealed to the World: which will appear in all these Evidences following.