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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.
CHAP. XX. Motives and Directions against Oppression. The sorts of it. The greatness of the sin of Oppression. The Cure. p. 137 Tit. 2. Cases about Oppression, especially of Tenants. p. 140 Q. 1. Is it lawful to buy land of a liberal Landlord, when the buyer must needs set it dearer than the S•l•er did? Q. 2. May one take as much for his Land as it is worth? Q. 3. May he raise his Rents? Q. 4. How much below the full worth must a Landlord set his Land? Q. 5. May not a Landlord that is in debt, or hath a payment to pay, raise his Rents to pay it? Q. 6. If I cannot relieve the honest poor, without raising the Rent of Tenants that are worthy of less charity, may I do it? Q. 7. May I penally raise a Tenants Rent, or turn him out, because he is a bad man? Q. 8. May one take house or Land while another is in possession of it? Q. 9. May a rich man put out his Tenants to lay the Lands to his own demesnes? Q. 10. May one Tenant have divers Tenements? Q. 11. May one have divers Trades? Q. 12. Or keep shops in several Market Towns.
CHAP. XX. Motives and Directions against Oppression. The sorts of it. The greatness of the sin of Oppression. The Cure. p. 137 Tit. 2. Cases about Oppression, especially of Tenants. p. 140 Q. 1. Is it lawful to buy land of a liberal Landlord, when the buyer must needs set it dearer than the S•l•er did? Q. 2. May one take as much for his Land as it is worth? Q. 3. May he raise his Rents? Q. 4. How much below the full worth must a Landlord set his Land? Q. 5. May not a Landlord that is in debt, or hath a payment to pay, raise his Rents to pay it? Q. 6. If I cannot relieve the honest poor, without raising the Rent of Tenants that are worthy of less charity, may I do it? Q. 7. May I penally raise a Tenants Rent, or turn him out, because he is a bad man? Q. 8. May one take house or Land while another is in possession of it? Q. 9. May a rich man put out his Tenants to lay the Lands to his own d•mesnes? Q. 10. May one Tenant have divers Tenements? Q. 11. May one have divers Trades? Q. 12. Or keep shops in several Market Towns.