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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.
§. 2. Quest. 15. May not a Magistrate take the subjects goods, when it is necessary for their own preservation?1
- 1Quest. 15.
Answ. I answered this question once heretofore in my Political Aphorisms: And because I repent of meddling with such subjects, and of writing that Book, I will leave such cases hereafter for fitter persons to resolve.
Answ. I answered this question once heretofore in my Political Aphorisms: And because I repent of medling with such subjects, and of writing that Book, I will leave such cases hereafter for fitter persons to resolve.
Quest. 16. But may I not take from another for a holy use: As to give to the Church or maintain the1 Bishops: If David took the hallowed bread in his necessity, may not hallowed persons take common bread much more?
- 1Quest. 16.