Table of Contents of Baxter Part4: Christian Politics
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| 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. | 800 |
| XIII. | Directions against scandal taken, or an aptness to receive hurt, by the words or deeds of others. | 807 |
| XIV | Directions against soul murder, and partaking of other men’s sins. | 810 |
| XV. | General directions for the furthering of the salvation of others. | 813 |
| XVI. | Special directions for christian conference, exhortation, and reproof. | 814 |
| XVII. | Directions for keeping peace with all men. | 819 |
| XVIII. | Directions against all theft and fraud, or injurious getting and keeping that which is another’s, or desiring it. | 823 |
| XIX. | General directions and particular cases of conscience, about contracts in general, and about buying and selling, borrowing and lending, usury, &c. in particular. | 827 |
| XX. | Directions against oppression. | 846 |
| XXI. | Cases about, and directions against, prodigality and sinful wastefulness. | 851 |
| XXII. | Cases and directions against injurious law-suits, witnessing, and judgment. | 855 |
| XXIII. | Cases of conscience, and directions against backbiting, slandering, and evil speaking. | 858 |
| XXIV. | Cases and directions against censoriousness and unwarrantable judging. | 861 |
| XXV. | Cases and directions about trusts and secrets. | 861 |
| XXVI. | Directions against selfishness as it is contrary to the love of our neighbour. | 868 |
| XXVII. | Cases and directions for loving our neighbour as ourselves. | 870 |
| XXVIII. | Special cases and directions for love to godly persons as such. | 873 |
| XXIX. | Cases and directions for loving and doing good to enemies. | 883 |
| XXX. | Cases and directions about works of charity. | 885 |
| XXXI. | Cases and directions about confessing sins and injuries to others. | 895 |
| XXXII. | Cases and directions about satisfaction and restitution. | 896 |
| XXXIII. | Cases and directions about our obtaining pardon from God. | 899 |
| XXXIV. | Cases and directions about self-judging. | 901 |
| A moral prognostication. | 905 | |
| To the reader. | 905 | |
| Of what must be expected in the churches of christendom, till the golden age returns, or till the time of true reformation and unity. | 906 | |
| Of the changes that will be in christendom in the golden age, and time of true reformation and unity. | 914 | |
| Consectary. | 920 | |
| The reformed liturgy. | 922 | |
| The ordinary public worship on the Lord’s day. | 922 | |
| The order of celebrating the sacrament of the body and blood of Christ. | 930 | |
| The celebration of the sacrament of baptism. | 934 | |
| Of catechising, and the approbation of those that are to be admitted to the Lord’s supper. | 936 | |
| Of the celebration of matrimony. | 937 | |
| The visitation of the sick, and their communion. | 938 | |
| The order of solemnizing the burial of the dead. | 938 | |
| Of extraordinary days of humiliation and thanksgiving, and anniversary festivals. | 939 | |
| Of prayer and thanksgiving for particular members of the church. | 939 | |
| Of pastoral discipline, public confession, absolution, and exclusion from the holy communion of the church. | 941 | |
| Appendix: prayers to be used at discretion. |
