Transcriber's Note:
The text of Part IV of A Christian Directory has been transcribed frompages 737 to 948 of Volume I of Richard Baxter's Practical Works, aslithographed from the 1846 edition.
The greater part comprises 34 chapters that mostly address duties torulers and to neighbours. These are followed by a "MoralPrognostication" on the future of the churches, and by a "ReformedLiturgy" that Baxter proposed. A table of contents has been insertedto assist the reader.
In the Liturgy all sub-headings, commentary and instructions to theMinister have been italicised and indented. The Liturgy includes alarge number of sidenotes citing relevant biblical passages. In theinterests of legibility these have been consolidated into footnotes atthe end of each paragraph.
Inconsistencies in hyphenation, and apparent typographical errors,have been corrected. The anchors for footnotes 5 and 8, in chapter I,have been inserted after consulting another edition of the text.
| Page | ||
| To the reader | 737 | |
| I. | General rules for an upright conversation. | 737 |
| II. | Memorandums to civil rulers for the interest of Christ, the church, and men's salvation. | 741 |
| III. | Directions for subjects concerning their duty to their rulers. | 744 |
| IV. | Directions to lawyers about their duty to God. | 769 |
| V. | The duty of physicians. | 771 |
| VI. | Directions to schoolmasters about their duty for their children's souls. | 773 |
| VII. | Directions for soldiers, about their duty in point of conscience. | 774 |
| VIII. | Advice against murder. | 778 |
| IX. | Directions for the forgiving of enemies, and those that injure us; against wrath, and malice, and revenge, and persecution. | 782 |
| X. | Cases resolved about forgiving injuries and debts, and about self-defence, and seeking right by law or otherwise. | 785 |
| XI. | Special directions to escape the guilt of persecuting. Determining also the case about liberty in matters of religion. | 790 |
| XII. | Directions against scandal as given. | ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! |