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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. XXIV. Cases of, and Directions against Censoriousness, and sinful judging. p. 157 Tit. 1. Cases. Q. 1. Am I not bound to judge truly of every one as he is? ⟨image 15⟩Q. 2. How far may we judge ill of one by outward appearance, as face, gesture, &c. Q. 3. How far may we censure on the report of others? Q. 4. Doth not the fifth Command bind us to judge better of Parents and Princes than their lives declare them to be? Q. 5. Whom must we judge sincere and holy Christians? Q. 6. Is it not a sin to err, and take a man for better than he is? Q. 7. Whom must I take for a visible Church member? Q. 8. Whom must I judge a true Worshipper of God? Q. 9. Which must I take for a true Church? Q. 10. Whom must we judge true Prophets, and true Pastors of the Church? p. 157 Tit. 2. Directions for the Cure of sinful Censoriousness. p. 159 Tit. 3. The evil of the sin of Censoriousness. p. 160 Tit. 4. Directions for those that are rashly censured by others? p. 162
CHAP. XXV. Cases and Directions about Trusts and Secrets? p. 163 Tit. 3. The Cases. Q. 1. How must we not put our Trust in man? Q. 2. Whom to choose for a Trust? Q. 3. When may I commit a secret to another? Q. 4. Must I keep a secret when I am trusted with it, but promise it not? Q. 5. What if a secret be revealed to me, without desire to conceal it? Q. 6. What if it be against the King or State? Q. 7. What if it be against the good of a third person? Q. 8. What if a man in Debt do trust his Estate with me to defraud his Creditors? Q. 9. What if a delinquent intrust his Person or Estate with me to secure it from penalty? Q. 10. What if a friend entrust his Estate with me, to secure it from some great Taxes to the King? Q. 11. What if a man that suffereth for Religion commit his person or Estate to my trust? Q. 12. If a Papist or erroneous person entrust me to Educate his Children in his error when he is dead, I being of his mind, must I perform it when I am better informed? Q. 13. What if one turn Papist, &c. after another hath committed his Children to him? Q. 14. Must I wrong my Estate to satisfy a dying friend in taking a trust? Q. 15. What if after, the trust prove more to my hurt than I could foresee? Q. 16. What if he cast the trust on me, without my promise to accept it? Q 17. May I not ease my self of a trust of Orphans, by casting it on the surviving kindred, if they calumniate me as unfaithful?