A26892:8357
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.
5. And between going to Law when the hurt is like to be greater than the benefit, and going to Law when it is likely to do good. There is a great deal of difference between these cases.
§. 27. Prop. 1. Christians must rather suffer wrong, than go to Law before the enemies of Religion, when it is like to harden them, and to bring Christianity into contempt.
Prop. 2. It is not lawful to make Law and Justice the means of private unlawful revenge; nor to vent our malice, nor to oppress the innocent.
Prop. 3. When ever I am bound to forgive the trespass, wrong, or debt, then it is unlawful to seek my own at Law. For that is not forgiving.
Prop. 4. There are many other remedies which must first be tried (ordinarily) before we go to Law: As