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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.
Part 4 › Chapter 18 › Tit. 2. Certain Cases of Conscience about Theft and Injury.
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.
§. 11. Quest. 4. If another take by theft or force from me, may I not take my own again from him,1 by force or secretly, when I have no other way?
- 1Quest. 4.
Answ. Not when you do more hurt to the Common-wealth by breaking Law and order, than your own benefit can recompense! For you must rather suffer, than the Common-wealth should suffer: But you may, when no such evils follow it.
Answ. Not when you do more hurt to the Common-wealth by breaking Law and order, than your own benefit can recompence! For you must rather suffer, than the Common-wealth should suffer: But you may, when no such evils follow it.