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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.
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.
2. It would be against the Law of Nature to force all Parents to give the sole propriety, or joint propriety in their children to others. Nature hath given the propriety to themselves, and we cannot rob them of it.
2. It would be against the Law of Nature to force all Parents to give the sole propriety, or joyntpropriety in their children to others. Nature hath given the propriety to themselves, and we cannot rob them of it.
3. It would be heinously injurious to the children of Noble and Learned persons, if they must be forced to give them up to the propriety and education of others, even of such as perhaps are lower and more unfit for it than themselves.
4. It would be more heinously injurious to all God-fathers and God-mothers, who must all make other mens children their own, and therefore must use them as their own.
5. It would keep most children unbaptized; Because if it were once understood that they must take them as their own, few would be Sponsors to the children of the poor, for fear of keeping them; and few but the Ignorant that know not what they do, would be Sponsors for any,