A26892:8379
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. 4. When Self-defence is like to have Consequents so ill, as the saving of our selves cannot countervail, it is then unlawful finis gratia, and not to be attempted.
Prop. 5. Therefore if Self-defence be unlikely to prevail, our strength being inconsiderable, and when the enemy is but like to be the more exasperated by it, and our sufferings like to be the greater, Nature and reason teach us to submit, and use the more effectual (lawful) means.
§. 31. Quest. 6. Is it lawful to take away another's life in the defending of my purse or estate?
§. 31. Quest. 6. Is it lawful to take away anothers life in the defending of my purse or estate?
Quest. 6.
Answ. 1. You must again distinguish between such defence as the Law of the Land alloweth, and such as it forbiddeth.