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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.
TOME II. Christian Economics.
TOME II. Christian Oeconomicks.
CHAP. I. Directions about Marriage for Choice and Contract. p 475 Whether Marriage be indifferent? Who are called to marry: Who may not marry? Q. What if Parents command it to one that it will be a hurt to? Q. What if I have a corporal necessity, when yet marriage is like to be a great incommodity to my soul? Of Parents prohibition. Q. What if Parents forbid marriage to one that cannot live chastely without it? or when affections are unconquerable? Q. What if the child have promised marriage, and the Parents be against it? Of the sense of Numb. 30. How far such promise must be kept Q. What if the Parties be actually married without Parents consent? Q. May the aged marry that are frigid, impotent, sterile? The incommodities of a married life to be considered by them that need restraint. Especially to Ministers. p. 482. Further Directions. How to cure lustful Love. Several Cases about marrying with an ungodly person. Q. 1. What Rule to follow about prohibited degrees of Consanguinity? Whether the Law of Moses, or of Nature, or the Laws of the Land, or Church, &c. p. 486 Q. 2. What to do if the Law of the Land forbid more degrees than Moses Law. p. 487 Q. 3. Of the Marriage of Cousin Germans, before band. Q. 4. What such should do after they are married. Q 5. What must they after do that are married in the degrees not forbidden by name, Lev. 18. and yet of the same nearness and reason. Q. 6. If they marry in a degree forbidden, Lev. 18. may not necessity make it lawful to continue it, as it made lawful the marriage of Adams Sons and Daughters. Q. 7. Whether a Vow of Chastity or Celibate may be broken, and in what cases. p. 488