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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.
§. 4. And here also you may perceive on what grounds it is that God hath appointed Parents to oblige their children in the Covenant of Baptism, to be the servants of God, and to live in holiness all their days.
§. 4. And here also you may perceive on what grounds it is that God hath appointed Parents to oblige their children in the Covenant of Baptism, to be the servants of God, and to live in holiness all their dayes.
§. 5. And hence it is apparent, that no Parents can oblige their children to be miserable, or to any such condition which is worse than to have no being.
§. 6. Also that when Parents do (as commonly they do) profess to oblige their children as Benefactors for their good, the obligation is then to be interpreted accordingly: And the child is then obliged to nothing which is really his hurt.
Yea, all the Propriety and Government of Parents, cannot authorize them to oblige the child to his hurt, but in order to some greater good, either to the Parents themselves, or to the Common-wealth, or others: At least that which the Parents apprehend to be a greater good: But if they err through ignorance or partiality, and bind the child to a greater hurt for their lesser good (as to pay 200 l. to save them from paying 100 l.) whether their injury and sin do excuse the child from being obliged to any more than the proportion of the benefit required, I leave undetermined.