A26892:8231
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
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§. 3. Direct. 3. When you are doubtful whether your Cause and Call be good, it is (ordinarily) 1safest to sit still, and not to venture in so dangerous a case, without great deliberation and sufficient evidence to satisfy your consciences. Neander might well say of Solon's Law, which punished them2 that took not one part or other in a Civil War or Sedition, Admirabilis autem illa atque plane incredibilis, quae honoribus abdicat eum, qui orta seditione nullam factionem secutus sit. No doubt, he is a culpable▪ Neuter that will not defend his Governors and his Country when he hath a call: But it is so dreadful a thing to be guilty of the blood and calamities of an unjust War, that a wise man will rather be abused as a Neuter, than run himself into the danger of such • case.
§. 3. Direct. 3. When you are doubtful whether your Cause and Call be good, it is (ordinarily) 1safest to sit still, and not to venture in so dangerous a case, without great deliberation and sufficient evidence to satisfie your consciences. Neander might well say of Solons Law, which punished them2 that took not one part or other in a Civil War or Sedition, Admirabilis autem illa atque plane incredibilis, quae honoribus abdicat eum, qui orta seditione nullam factionem secutus sit. No doubt, he is a culpable▪ Neuter that will not defend his Governours and his Countrey when he hath a call: But it is so dreadful a thing to be guilty of the blood and calamities of an unjust War, that a wise man will rather be abused as a Neuter, than run himself into the danger of such • case.
- 1Direct. 3.
- 2Neander in Chron. p. 104.