A26892:8374
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. 3. And it is necessary to the Lawfulness of it, that the means be such as in its nature is like to be successful, or like to do more good than harm.
§. 30. But on the other side: Prop. 1. We may not defend our selves by any such force as either the Laws of God, or our Rulers, thereto authorized by him, shall forbid. For,
1. The Laws are made by such as have more power over our lives, than we have over them our selves. 2. And they are made for the good of the Common-wealth: which is to be preferred before the good or life of any single person. And what ever selfish Infidels say, both nature and grace do teach us to lay down our lives, for the welfare of the Church or State, and to prefer a multitude before our selves. Therefore it is better to be robbed, oppressed, or killed, than to break the peace of the Common-wealth.
1. The Laws are made by such as have more power over our lives, than we have over them our selves. 2. And they are made for the good of the Common-wealth: which is to be preferred before the good or life of any single person. And what ever selfish Infidels say, both nature and grace do teach us to lay down our lives, for the welfare of the Church or State, and to prefer a multitude before our selves. Therefore it is better to be robbed, opprest, or killed, than to break the peace of the Common-wealth.