A26892:8365
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.
Prop. 2. The suppressing of sin, and the defending of the innocent, and righting of the wronged, being the duty of Governors, it is lawful to seek these benefits at their hands.
Prop. 2. The suppressing of sin, and the defending of the innocent, and righting of the wronged, being the duty of Governours, it is lawful to seek these benefits at their hands.
Prop. 3. In cases where I am not obliged to forgive (as I have showed before some such there be), I may justly make use of Governors as the Ordinance of God.
Prop. 3. In cases where I am not obliged to forgive (as I have shewed before some such there be), I may justly make use of Governours as the Ordinance of God.
Prop. 4. The order and season is when I have tried other means in vain! When persuasion or arbitration will do no good, or cannot be used with hope of success.
Prop. 4. The order and season is when I have tryed other means in vain! When perswasion or arbitration will do no good, or cannot be used with hope of success.