A26892:8392
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. If a pilfering Thief would steal your purse, without any violence which hazardeth your life, (ordinarily) you may not take away his life in the defending of it. Because it is the work of the Magistrate to punish him by public Justice, and your defence requireth it not.
Prop. 4. If a pilfering Thief would steal your purse, without any violence which hazardeth your life, (ordinarily) you may not take away his life in the defending of it. Because it is the work of the Magistrate to punish him by publick Justice, and your defence requireth it not.
Prop. 5. All this is chiefly meant, of the voluntary designed taking away of his life; and not of any lawful action, which doth it accidentally against your will.
§. 33. On the other side: Prop. 1. If the Law of the Land allow you to take away a mans life in the defending of your purse, it removeth the scruple, if the weight of the matter also do allow it: Because it supposeth that the Law taketh the offender to be worthy of death, and maketh you in that case the executioner of it. And if indeed the crime be such as deserveth death, you may be the executioner when the Law alloweth it.
§. 33. On the other side: Prop. 1. If the Law of the Land allow you to take away a mans life in the defending of your purse, it removeth the scruple, if the weight of the matter also do allow it: Because it supposeth that the Law taketh the offendor to be worthy of death, and maketh you in that case the executioner of it. And if indeed the crime be such as deserveth death, you may be the executioner when the Law alloweth it.