A Christian Directory, Part 4: Christian Politics
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Richard Baxter. A Christian Directory, Part 4: Christian Politics
CHAPTER I. GENERAL RULES FOR AN UPRIGHT CONVERSATION
CHAPTER II. MEMORANDUMS TO CIVIL RULERS FOR THE INTEREST OF CHRIST, THE CHURCH, AND MEN'S SALVATION
CHAPTER III. DIRECTIONS FOR SUBJECTS CONCERNING THEIR DUTY TO THEIR RULERS
CHAPTER IV. DIRECTIONS TO LAWYERS ABOUT THEIR DUTY TO GOD
CHAPTER V. THE DUTY OF PHYSICIANS
CHAPTER VI. DIRECTIONS TO SCHOOLMASTERS ABOUT THEIR DUTY FOR THEIR CHILDREN'S SOULS
CHAPTER VII. DIRECTIONS FOR SOLDIERS, ABOUT THEIR DUTY IN POINT OF CONSCIENCE
CHAPTER VIII. DIRECTONS AGAINST MURDER
CHAPTER IX. DIRECTIONS FOR THE FORGIVING OF ENEMIES, AND THOSE THAT INJURE US; AGAINST WRATH, AND MALICE, AND REVENGE, AND PERSECUTION
CHAPTER X. CASES RESOLVED ABOUT FORGIVING INJURIES AND DEBTS, AND ABOUT SELF-DEFENCE, AND SEEKING RIGHT BY LAW OR OTHERWISE
CHAPTER XI. SPECIAL DIRECTIONS TO ESCAPE THE GUILT OF PERSECUTING. DETERMINING ALSO THE CASE ABOUT LIBERTY IN MATTERS OF RELIGION
CHAPTER XII. DIRECTIONS AGAINST SCANDAL AS GIVEN
CHAPTER XIII. DIRECTIONS AGAINST SCANDAL TAKEN, OR AN APTNESS TO RECEIVE HURT, BY THE WORDS OR DEEDS OF OTHERS
CHAPTER XIV. DIRECTIONS AGAINST SOUL MURDER, AND PARTAKING OF OTHER MEN'S SINS
CHAPTER XV. GENERAL DIRECTIONS FOR THE FURTHERING OF THE SALVATION OF OTHERS
CHAPTER XVI. SPECIAL DIRECTIONS FOR CHRISTIAN CONFERENCE, EXHORTATION, AND REPROOF
CHAPTER XVII. DIRECTIONS FOR KEEPING PEACE WITH ALL MEN
CHAPTER XVIII. DIRECTIONS AGAINST ALL THEFT AND FRAUD, OR INJURIOUS GETTING AND KEEPING THAT WHICH IS ANOTHER'S, OR DESIRING IT
CHAPTER XIX. GENERAL DIRECTIONS AND PARTICULAR CASES OF CONSCIENCE, ABOUT CONTRACTS IN GENERAL, AND ABOUT BUYING AND SELLING, BORROWING AND LENDING, USURY, &c. IN PARTICULAR
CHAPTER XX. DIRECTIONS AGAINST OPPRESSION
CHAPTER XXI. CASES ABOUT, AND DIRECTIONS AGAINST, PRODIGALITY AND SINFUL WASTEFULNESS
CHAPTER XXII. CASES AND DIRECTIONS AGAINST INJURIOUS LAW-SUITS, WITNESSING, AND JUDGMENT
CHAPTER XXIII. CASES OF CONSCIENCE, AND DIRECTIONS AGAINST BACKBITING, SLANDERING, AND EVIL SPEAKING
CHAPTER XXIV. CASES AND DIRECTIONS AGAINST CENSORIOUSNESS AND UNWARRANTABLE JUDGING
CHAPTER XXV. CASES AND DIRECTIONS ABOUT TRUSTS AND SECRETS
CHAPTER XXVI. DIRECTIONS AGAINST SELFISHNESS AS IT IS CONTRARY TO THE LOVE OF OUR NEIGHBOUR
CHAPTER XXVII. CASES AND DIRECTIONS FOR LOVING OUR NEIGHBOUR AS OURSELVES
CHAPTER XXVIII. SPECIAL CASES AND DIRECTIONS FOR LOVE TO GODLY PERSONS AS SUCH
CHAPTER XXIX. CASES AND DIRECTIONS FOR LOVING AND DOING GOOD TO ENEMIES
CHAPTER XXX. CASES AND DIRECTIONS ABOUT WORKS OF CHARITY
CHAPTER XXXI. CASES AND DIRECTIONS ABOUT CONFESSING SINS AND INJURIES TO OTHERS
CHAPTER XXXII. CASES AND DIRECTIONS ABOUT SATISFACTION AND RESTITUTION
CHAPTER XXXIII. CASES AND DIRECTIONS ABOUT OUR OBTAINING PARDON FROM GOD
CHAPTER XXXIV. CASES AND DIRECTIONS ABOUT SELF-JUDGING
A MORAL PROGNOSTICATION
A MORAL PROGNOSTICATION OF WHAT MUST BE EXPECTED IN THE CHURCHES OF CHRISTENDOM, TILL THEGOLDEN AGE RETURNS, OR TILL THE TIME OF TRUE REFORMATION AND UNITY
A PROGNOSTICATION OF THE CHANGES THAT WILL BE IN CHRISTENDOM IN THE GOLDEN AGE, AND TIME OF TRUE REFORMATION AND UNITY
CONSECTARY
THE REFORMED LITURGY
THE ORDINARY PUBLIC WORSHIP ON THE LORD'S DAY
THE ORDER OF CELEBRATING THE SACRAMENT OF THE BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST
THE CELEBRATION OF THE SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM
OF CATECHISING, AND THE APPROBATION OF THOSE THAT ARE TO BE ADMITTED TO THE LORD'S SUPPER
OF THE CELEBRATION OF MATRIMONY
THE VISITATION OF THE SICK, AND THEIR COMMUNION
THE ORDER OF SOLEMNIZING THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD
OF EXTRAORDINARY DAYS OF HUMILIATION AND THANKSGIVING, AND ANNIVERSARY FESTIVALS
OF PRAYER AND THANKSGIVING FOR PARTICULAR MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH
OF PASTORAL DISCIPLINE, PUBLIC CONFESSION, ABSOLUTION, AND EXCLUSION FROM THE HOLY COMMUNION OF THE CHURCH
APPENDIX
A LARGER LITANY, OR GENERAL PRAYER, TO BE USED AT DISCRETION
THE CHURCH'S PRAISE FOR OUR REDEMPTION, TO BE USED AT DISCRETION
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Solomon saith, Prov. x. 9, "He that walketh uprightly walketh surely." And perfection and uprightness are the characters of Job, Job i. 1, 8; ii. 3. And in the Scripture to be upright or righteous, and to walk uprightly, and to do righteously, are the titles of those that are acceptable to God. And by uprightness is meant not only sincerity as opposed to hypocrisy; but also rectitude of heart and life, as opposed to crookedness or sin; and this as it is found in various degrees: of which we use to call the lowest degree that is saving by the name of sincerity, and the highest by the name of perfection.
Concerning uprightness of life, I shall, I. Briefly tell you some of those blessings that should make us all in love with it, and, II. Give you some necessary rules of practice.
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Object. But great men have great spirits, and are impatient of reproof, and I am not bound to that which will do no good, but ruin me.
Answ. 1. It is an abuse of your superiors, to censure them to be so proud and brutish, as not to consider that they are the subjects of God, and have souls to save or lose, as well as others: will you judge so hardly of them before trial, as if they were far worse and foolisher than the poor, and take this abuse of them to be an excuse for your other sin? No doubt there are good rulers in the world, that will say to Christ's ministers, as the Prince Elector Palatine did to Pitiscus, charging him to tell him plainly of his faults, when he chose him to be the Pastor Aulicus.83
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