A26892:78
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.
CHAP. IX. The special duty of Wives to their Husbands. p. 531 Q. How far may a Wife give, without her Husbands Consent. Q. Of Wives propriety. Q Is a Wife guilty of her Husbands unlawful getting if she keep it: And is she bound to reveal it, (as in robbing)? Q. May a Wife go hear Sermons when her Husband forbiddeth her? Q. Must a woman proceed to admonish a wicked Husband when it maketh him worse. Q. What she must do in Controverted Cases of Religion, when her judgement and her Husbands differ. p. 534. Q. How long, or in what Cases may Husbands and Wives be distant. p. 535. Q. May the bare Commands of Princes separate Husbands and Wives, (as Ministers, Judges, Soldiers). Q. May Ministers leave their Wives to go abroad to preach the Gospel. Q. May one leave a Wife to save his life in case of personal persecution or danger? Q. May Husband and Wife part by consent, if they find it to be for the good of both? Q. May they consent to be divorced, and to marry others? Q. Doth Adultery dissolve marriage. Q. Is the injured person bound to divorce the other, or left free? Q. Is it the proper privilege of the man to put away an adulterous Wife, or is it also in the woman's power to depart from an adulterous Husband? Q. May there be putting away, or departing without the Magistrates divorce or license? Q. Is not Sodomy, and Buggery as lawful a reason of divorce as Adultery. Q. What if both parties be adulterous? Q. What if one purposely commit adultery to be separated from the other: Q. Doth Infidelity dissolve the relation? Q. Doth the desertion of one party disoblige the other? Q. Must a woman follow a malignant Husband that goeth from the Means of Grace? Q. Must she follow him, if it be but to poverty or beggary? Q. What to do in case of known intention of one to murder the other? Q. Or if there be a fixed hatred of each other? Q What if a man will not suffer his Wife to hear, read or pray: or do beat her so, as to unfit her for duty: or a woman will rail at the Husband in prayer time, &c. Q. What to do in danger of life by the Pox or Leprosy, &c. Q Who may marry after parting or divorce. p. 539. Q Is it lawful to suffer, yea, or contribute to the known sin materially of Wife, Child, Servant, or other relations: Where is opened what is in our Power to do against sin, and what not. p. 539. Q.
CHAP. IX. The special duty of Wives to their Husbands. p. 531 Q. How far may a Wife give, without her Husbands Consent. Q. Of Wives propriety. Q Is a Wife guilty of her Husbands unlawful getting if she keep it: And is she bound to reveal it, (as in robbing)? Q. May a Wife go hear Sermons when her Husband forbiddeth her? Q. Must a woman proceed to admonish a wicked Husband when it maketh him worse. Q. What she must do in Controverted Cases of Religion, when her judgement and her Husbands differ. p. 534. Q. How long, or in what Cases may Husbands and Wives be distant. p. 535. Q. May the bare Commands of Princes separate Husbands and Wives, (as Ministers, Iudges, Souldiers). Q. May Ministers leave their Wives to go abroad to preach the Gospel. Q. May one leave a Wife to save his life in case of personal persecution or danger? Q. May Husband and Wife part by consent, if they find it to be for the good of both? Q. May they consent to be divorced, and to marry others? Q. Doth Adultery dissolve marriage. Q. Is the injured person bound to divorce the other, or left free? Q. Is it the proper priviledge of the man to put away an adulterous Wife, or is it also in the womans power to depart from an adulterous Husband? Q. May there be putting away, or departing without the Magistrates divorce or license? Q. Is not Sodomy, and Buggery as lawful a reason of divorce as Adultery. Q. What if both parties be adulterous? Q. What if one purposely commit adultery to be separated from the other: Q. Doth Infidelity dissolve the relation? Q. Doth the desertion of one party disoblige the other? Q. Must a woman follow a malignant Husband that goeth from the Means of Grace? Q. Must she follow him, if it be but to poverty or beggary? Q. What to do in case of known intention of one to murder the other? Q. Or if there be a fixed hatred of each other? Q What if a man will not suffer his Wife to hear, read or pray: or do beat her so, as to unfit her for duty: or a woman will rail at the Husband in prayer time, &c. Q. What to do in danger of life by the Pox or Leprosie, &c. Q Who may marry after parting or divorce. p. 539. Q Is it lawful to suffer, yea, or contribute to the known sin materially of Wife, Child, Servant, or other relations: Where is opened what is in our Power to do against sin, and what not. p. 539. Q.