A Christian Directory

Name: A Christian Directory
Author: Richard Baxter

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.

Richard Baxter 1615–1691London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1673

[35], 929, [5], 214 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. · 1.2M words · Wing B1219 · ESTC R21847

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Contents › Part 4: TOME IV. Christian Politics.Contents › Part 4: TOME IV. Christian Politicks.

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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? Tit. 2. Directions about Trusts and Secrets? p. 166

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 errour 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 satisfie 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 Orphanes, by casting it on the surviving kindred, if they calumniate me as unfaithful?

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A Christian Directory

READER, Thou art desired to mend the following Errata with thy Pen; especially those marked with a Star. Some more false Spellings, false Pointings, &c. there are, but too slight to give thee any trouble.

READER, Thou art desired to mend the following Errata with thy Pen; especially those markt with a Star. Some more false Spellings, false Pointings, &c. there are, but too slight to give thee any trouble.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

READER, Thou art desired to mend the following Errata with thy Pen; especially those marked with a Star. Some more false Spellings, false Pointings, &c. there are, but too slight to give thee any trouble.

READER, Thou art desired to mend the following Errata with thy Pen; especially those markt with a Star. Some more false Spellings, false Pointings, &c. there are, but too slight to give thee any trouble.

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