A26892:8237
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.
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.
§. 8. Direct. 8. Use not your power or liberty to the robbing, or oppressing or injuring of any. Though1 military Thieves and oppressors may scape the Gallows, more than others; they shall come as soon to Hell as any. If you plunder, and spoil, and tyrannize over the poor people, under pretence o• supplying your own wants, there is a God in Heaven that will hear their cries, and will avenge them ⟨p. 49⟩speedily, though you seem to go scot-free for a time. You may take a pride in domineering over others, and making your selves Lords by violence of other mens estates, and when you see none that will question you for it, you may take that which you have most mind of: But the poor and oppressed have a just defender, who hath a severer punishment for you than the Sword or Gallows! And though he take you not in the very fact, and his sentence is not presently executed, yet be certain of it, that your day is coming.
§. 8. Direct. 8. Use not your power or liberty to the robbing, or oppressing or injuring of any. Though1 military Thieves and oppressors may scape the Gallows, more than others; they shall come as soon to Hell as any. If you plunder, and spoil, and tyrannize over the poor people, under pretence o• supplying your own wants, there is a God in Heaven that will hear their cryes, and will avenge them ⟨p. 49⟩speedily, though you seem to go scot-free for a time. You may take a pride in domineering over others, and making your selves Lords by violence of other mens estates, and when you see none that will question you for it, you may take that which you have most mind of: But the poor and oppressed have a just defender, who hath a severer punishment for you than the Sword or Gallows! And though he take you not in the very fact, and his sentence is not presently executed, yet be certain of it, that your day is coming.
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