A26879:1825
The catechizing of families a teacher of householders how to teach their householdsThe catechizing of families a teacher of housholders how to teach their housholds
The catechizing of families a teacher of householders how to teach their households : useful also to school-masters and tutors of youth : for those that are past the common small catechisms [sic], and would grow to a more rooted faith, and to the fuller understanding of all that is commonly needful to a safe, holy comfortable and profitable life / written by Richard Baxter ...The catechizing of families a teacher of housholders how to teach their housholds : useful also to school-masters and tutors of youth : for those that are past the common small chatechisms [sic], and would grow to a more rooted faith, and to the fuller understanding of all that is commonly needful to a safe, holy comfortable and profitable life / written by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for T. Parkhurst, 1683
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.
Q. 5. But what if it be so small a matter as will be no loss to him? Is it sinful Theft to take it?
A. Yes; if there be none of his Consent, nor any Law to warrant you, it is Theft how small soever the thing be. But if the common sense of Mankind suppose that men would consent if they knew it; or if the Law of God, or the just Law of Man enable you to take it, it is no Theft. And so God allowed the Israelites to pluck the Ears of Corn, or eat Fruit as they passed through a Vineyard in hunger, so be it that they carried none away. And a man may gather a Leaf or an Herb for Medicine in another Mans Ground, because Humanity supposeth that the Owner will not be against it.a
A. Yes; if there be none of his Consent, nor any Law to warrant you, it is Theft how small soever the thing be. But if the common sence of Mankind suppose that men would consent if they knew it; or if the Law of God, or the just Law of Man enable you to take it, it is no Theft. And so God allowed the Israelites to pluck the Ears of Corn, or eat Fruit as they pass'd through a Vineyard in hunger, so be it that they carryed none away. And a man may gather a Leaf or an Herb for Medicine in another Mans Ground, because Humanity supposeth that the Owner will not be against it.a