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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 one drive a Trade with borrowed money, when success and repayment is uncertain? Q. 3. May be that cannot pay his debts, retain any thing for his food and raiment? Q. 4. May one that breaketh, secure that to his Wife and Children, which on Marriage he promised, before he was in debt? Q. 5. May one that breaketh retain somewhat to set up again, by compounding with his Creditors? Q. 6. May I in necessity break my day of payment? Q. 7. May I borrow of one to keep day with another? Q. 8. May one that hath no probability of paying the last man, borrow of one to pay another? Q. 9. Is it lawful to take pledges, pawns or mortgages for security? Q. 10. May a forfeiture, pledge or mortgage be kept, on Covenant breaking? Q. 11. May I take the promise or bond of a third person as security for my money? Q. 12. Is it lawful to lend upon usury, interest or increase? Q. 13. Whom are we bound to lend to? Q. 14. Is it lawful to take money on usury, in such cases as the Lender sinneth in? Q 15. Doth not contracting for a certain sum make usury the more unlawful? p. 124 Tit. 5. Cases about Lusory Contracts. Q. 1. Is it lawful to lay wagers about the truth of our discourses? Q. 2. Is it lawful to lay wagers about Horse-races, Dogs, Hawks, &c. Q. 3. May one give money to see Games or Activities, Bear-baitings, Plays, &c. Q 4. Is it lawful to play for money at Cards, Dice, Lottery, &c. Q. 5. Or at Games, of Activity, as Bowling, Shooting, Running, &c. Q. 6. If the looser prove angry and unwilling to pay, may I get it of him by Law? p. 129 Tit. 6. Cases about losing and finding. Q. 1. Must we seek out the loser to restore what we find? Q. 2. May I take a reward as my due, for restoring what I found? Q. 3. May I wish to find any thing in my way, or be glad that I find it? Q. 4. May I not keep it, if no owner be found. Q. 5. If others be present when I find it, may I not conceal, or keep it to my self? Q 6. Who must stand to the loss of goods trusted to another? p. 130 Tit. 7. Directions to Merchants, Factors, Travellers, Chaplains, that live among Heathens, Infidels or Papists? p. 131 Q. 1. Is it lawful to put ones self or servants, ⟨image 15⟩specially young unsettled Apprentices, into the temptations of an Infidel, or Popish Country, merely to get Riches as Merchants do? p. 131 Q. 2. May a Merchant or Ambassador leave his Wife, to live abroad? p. 132 Q. 3.
May one drive a Trade with borrowed money, when success and repayment is uncertain? Q. 3. May be that cannot pay his debts, retain any thing for his food and rayment? Q. 4. May one that breaketh, secure that to his Wife and Children, which on Marriage he promised, before he was in debt? Q. 5. May one that breaketh retain somewhat to set up again, by compounding with his Creditors? Q. 6. May I in necessity break my day of payment? Q. 7. May I borrow of one to keep day with another? Q. 8. May one that hath no probability of paying the last man, borrow of one to pay another? Q. 9. Is it lawful to take pledges, pawns or mortgages for security? Q. 10. May a fofeiture, pledge or mortgage be kept, on Covenant breaking? Q. 11. May I take the promise or bond of a third person as security for my money? Q. 12. Is it lawful to lend upon usury, interest or increase? Q. 13. Whom are we bound to lend to? Q. 14. Is it lawful to take money on usury, in such cases as the Lender sinneth in? Q 15. Doth not contracting for a certain summ make usury the more unlawful? p. 124 Tit. 5. Cases about Lusory Contracts. Q. 1. Is it lawful to lay wagers about the truth of our discourses? Q. 2. Is it lawful to lay wagers about Horse-races, Dogs, Hawks, &c. Q. 3. May one give money to see Games or Activities, Bear-baitings, Playes, &c. Q 4. Is it lawful to play for money at Cards, Dice, Lottery, &c. Q. 5. Or at Games, of Activity, as Bowling, Shooting, Running, &c. Q. 6. If the looser prove angry and unwilling to pay, may I get it of him by Law? p. 129 Tit. 6. Cases about losing and finding. Q. 1. Must we seek out the loser to restore what we find? Q. 2. May I take a reward as my due, for restoring what I found? Q. 3. May I wish to find any thing in my way, or be glad that I find it? Q. 4. May I not keep it, if no owner be found. Q. 5. If others be present when I find it, may I not conceal, or keep it to my self? Q 6. Who must stand to the loss of goods trusted to another? p. 130 Tit. 7. Directions to Merchants, Factors, Travellers, Chaplains, that live among Heathens, Infidels or Papists? p. 131 Q. 1. Is it lawful to put ones self or servants,