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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.
Contents › Part 4: TOME IV. Christian Politics.Contents › Part 4: TOME IV. Christian Politicks.
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.
May a Bishop or Pastor take money for Sermons, Sacraments, or other Offices? Q. 28. May I disoblige another of his promise made to me? Q. 29. What if it be seconded by an Oath? Q. 30. Doth a promise bind, when the cause or reason proveth a mistake? Q 31. What if a following accident make it more to my hurt than could be foreseen? Q. 32. Or if it make it injurious to a third person? Q. 33. Or if a f•llowing accident make the performance a sin? Q. 34. Am I bound to him that breaketh Covenant with me? Q. 35. May I contract to do that, which I foresee like to become impossible, before the time of performance? Tit. 3. Cases about Justice in Buying and Selling. p. 120 Q 1. Am I bound to endeavour the gain of him that I bargain with as well as my own? Q. 2. May I take more for my labour or goods than the worth, if I can get it? Q. 3. May I ask more in the Market than the worth? Q. 4. How shall the worth of a Commodity be judged of? Q. 5. May I conceal the faults, or make a thing seem better than it is, by setting the best side outward, adorning, &c. Q. 6. If I was deceived, or gave more than the worth, may I do so to repair my loss? Q. 7. If I foresee a cheapness of my Commodity (as by coming in of Ships, &c.) must I tell the buyer of it that knoweth it not? Q. 8. May I keep my Commodity if I foresee a dearth? Q. 9. May one use many words in buying and selling? Q. 10. May I buy as cheap as I can, or below the worth? Q. 11. May I sell dearer for another's necessity? (Cases instanced in). Q. 12. May I take advantage of the buyers ignorance? Q. 13. May I strive to get a good bargain before another? Q. 14. May I buy a thing, or hire a servant, which another is first about, or call away his Chapman? Q. 15. May I dispraise another's Commodity, to draw the buyer to my own? Q. 16. What to do in cases of doubtful equity? Q. 17. What if the buyer lose the thing bought before the payment? (as, a Horse dye, &c.) Q. 18. If the thing bought (as Amber-Chryse, Jewels, &c.) prove of much more worth than either party expected, must more be after payed? Q. 19. What if the title prove bad which was before unknown? Q. 20. If a change of powers overthrow a title speedily, who must bear the l•ss? p. 120 Tit. 4. Cases about Lending and B•rrowing. Q 1. May one borrow money, who seeth no probability that he shall be able to repay it? Q 2.
May a Bishop or Pastor take money for Sermons, Sacraments, or other Offices? Q. 28. May I disoblige another of his promise made to me? Q. 29. What if it be secnded by an Oath? Q. 30. Doth a promise bind, when the cause or reason proveth a mistake? Q 31. What if a following accident make it more to my hurt than could be foreseen? Q. 32. Or if it make it injurious to a third person? Q. 33. Or if a fllowing accident make the perfrmance a sin? Q. 34. Am I bound to him that breaketh Covenant with me? Q. 35. May I contract to do that, which I foresee like to become impossible, before the time of performance?