A26892:8322
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. Prop. 7. And as I must vindicate my Estate for others to whom I am entrusted to Administer it by God, so must I for my self also, so far as God would have me use it my self. For he that hath charged me to provide for my Family, requireth also that I famish not my self: And he hath required me to love my Neighbour but as my self: And therefore as I am bound to vindicate and help my Neighbour if a Thief or Oppressor would rob him, (according to my place and power), so must I do also for my self: In all these seven cases I am not obliged to forgive.
§. 8. Prop. 7. And as I must vindicate my Estate for others to whom I am entrusted to Administer it by God, so must I for my self also, so far as God would have me use it my self. For he that hath charged me to provide for my Family, requireth also that I famish not my self: And he hath required me to love my Neighbour but as my self: And therefore as I am bound to vindicate and help my Neighbour if a Thief or Oppressour would rob him, (according to my place and power), so must I do also for my self: In all these seven cases I am not obliged to forgive.
§. 9. But on the other side in all these Cases following, I am bound to forgive and let go my right.
Prop. 1. As the Church may declare to penitent sinners, the remission of the eternal punishment, so may it remit the temporal punishment of excommunication to the penitent: Yea, this they are obliged by Christ to do, ministerially as under him.