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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. 6. If a Thief have taken your purse, though you may not take away his life after to recover it (because it is of less value) nor yet in revenge (because that belongeth not to private men); yet if the Law require or allow you to pursue him to bring him to a judicial trial, if you kill him while he resisteth, it is not your sin; because you are but suppressing sin in your place, according to the allowance of the Law.
Prop. 6. If a Thief have taken your purse, though you may not take away his life after to recover it (because it is of less value) nor yet in revenge (because that belongeth not to private men); yet if the Law require or allow you to pursue him to bring him to a judicial tryal, if you kill him while he resisteth, it is not your sin; because you are but suppressing sin in your place, according to the allowance of the Law.
§. 34. Quest. 7. May I kill or wound another in the defence or vindication of my honour or good name?1
- 1Quest. 7.
Answ. No: not by private assault or violence; But if the crime be so great that the Law of the Land doth punish it with death, if that Law be just, you may in some cases, seek to bring the offender to public justice: But that is rare; and otherwise you may not do it: For,
Answ. No: not by private assault or violence; But if the crime be so great that the Law of the Land doth punish it with death, if that Law be just, you may in some cases, seek to bring the offendor to publick justice: But that is rare; and otherwise you may not do it: For,