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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. If you have just ground to think that your friend would consent if he knew it, you will not be blameable: But if otherwise, either you take it for your own benefit and use, or you take it only to make sport by: The former is their, for all your jest: The later is but an unlawful way of jesting.
Answ. If you have just ground to think that your friend would consent if he knew it, you will not be blameable: But if otherwise, either you take it for your own benefit and use, or you take it only to make sport by: The former is their, for all your jeast: The later is but an unlawful way of jeasting.
§. 20. Quest. 13. What if I take it from him but to save him from hurting his body with it: As If I1 steal poison from one that intended to kill himself by it: or take a sword from a drunken man, that would hurt himself; or a knife from a melancholy man! or what if it be to save another, as to take a mad mans sword from him, who would kill such as are in his way, or an angry mans that will kill another.
§. 20. Quest. 13. What if I take it from him but to save him from hurting his body with it: As If I1 steal poyson from one that intended to kill himself by it: or take a sword from a drunken man, that would hurt himself; or a knife from a melancholy man! or what if it be to save another, as to take a mad mans sword from him, who would kill such as are in his way, or an angry mans that will kill another.
- 1Quest. 13.