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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.
Answ. 1. If it be an act of the Parents as mere Proprietors for their own good, either of them may oblige him in a just degree; because they have severally a propriety. 2. If it be an act of Government (as if they oblige him to do this or that act of service at their command in his minority,) the Father may oblige him against the Mothers consent, because he is the chief Ruler; but not the Mother against the Fathers will; though she may without it.
Answ. 1. If it be an act of the Parents as meer Proprietors for their own good, either of them may oblige him in a just degree; because they have severally a propriety. 2. If it be an act of Government (as if they oblige him to do this or that act of service at their command in his minority,) the Father may oblige him against the Mothers consent, because he is the chief Ruler; but not the Mother against the Fathers will; though she may without it.
§. 8. Quest. 3. Is a man obliged by a contract which he made in ignorance or mistake of the1 matter?
- 1Quest. 3.
Answ. I have answered this before in the case of Marriage Part. 3. Chap. 1. I add here.