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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.
3. He that is the child or slave of another, or is his own by propriety, is more at his power, than he that is only a subject, and so is but to be Governed in order to his own and the common good.
4. A servant that hath absolutely hired himself to another, is for that time near the condition of a slave: But he that is hired but with limitations, and exceptions of Liberty, (expressed or understood) hath right to the excepted liberty.
4. A servant that hath absolutely hired himself to another, is for that time neer the condition of a slave: But he that is hired but with limitations, and exceptions of Liberty, (exprest or understood) hath right to the excepted liberty.
5. If the King forbid Judges, Soldiers or others whose labours are due to the public, to hear Sermons at the time when they should do their work: Or if Parents, or Masters so forbid Children and servants, they must be obeyed, while they exclude not the public Worship of the Lords own day, nor necessary Prayer and duty in our private daily cases.
5. If the King forbid Judges, Souldiers or others whose labours are due to the publick, to hear Sermons at the time when they should do their work: Or if Parents, or Masters so forbid Children and servants, they must be obeyed, while they exclude not the publick Worship of the Lords own day, nor necessary Prayer and duty in our private daily cases.