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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.
Part 4 › Chapter 18 › Tit. 2. Certain Cases of Conscience about Theft and Injury.
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.
Answ. Not, unless the Law either make you a Magistrate or Officer to do it, or allow and permit it at the least: Because it is not to you that the forfeiture is made: Or if it be, you must execute the Law according to the Law, and not against it; For else you will offend in punishing offences.
§. 17. Quest. 10. But what if I fully resolve, when I take a thing in my necessity, to repay the owner,1 or make him satisfaction if ever I be able?
- 1Quest. 10.
Answ. That is some extenuation of the sin, but no justification of the fact; which is otherwise unjustifiable: Because it is still without his consent.
§. 18. Quest. 11. What if I know not whether the owner would consent, or not?