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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.
§. 95. 12. Christianity teacheth men to do good to all men as far as we are able, and to abound in good works as that for which we are Redeemed and new made: And if men will set themselves wholly to do good, and be hurtful and injurious to none, how easy will it be to govern such?
§. 95. 12. Christianity teacheth men to do good to all men as far as we are able, and to abound in good works as that for which we are Redeemed and new made: And if men will set themselves wholly to do good, and be hurtful and injurious to none, how easie will it be to govern such?
§. 96. 13. Christianity teacheth men to forbear and to forgive, as ever they will be forgiven of1 God; and the strong to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please themselves, but one another to their edification: Not to be censorious, harsh or cruel; nor to place the Kingdom of2 God in meats, and drinks, and days, but in righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost: To bear one another's burdens; and to restore them with the Spirit of meekness that are overtaken in a fault; and to be peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and hypocrisy, and to speak evil of no man: And where this is obeyed, how quietly and easily may Princes govern?
§. 96. 13. Christianity teacheth men to forbear and to forgive, as ever they will be forgiven of1 God; and the strong to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please themselves, but one another to their edification: Not to be censorious, harsh or cruel; nor to place the Kingdom of2 God in meats, and drinks, and dayes, but in righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost: To bear one anothers burdens; and to restore them with the Spirit of meekness that are overtaken in a fault; and to be peaceable, gentle, easie to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and hypocrisie, and to speak evil of no man: And where this is obeyed, how quietly and easily may Princes govern?