A26892:8796
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.
§. 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.
1. We Must distinguish between culpable and inculpable error: 2. Between an error about the principal matter, and about some smaller accidents or circumstances. 3. Between a case where the Law of the Land, or the common good interposeth, and where it doth not.
1. If it be your own fault that you are mistaken, you are not wholly freed from the obligation: But if it was your gross fault; by negligence or vice, you are not at all freed: But if it were but such a frailty as almost all men are liable to, so that none but a person of extraordinary virtue or diligence could have avoided the mistake, then equity will proportionably make you an abatement or free you from the obligation. So far as you were obliged to understand the matter, so far you are obliged by the contract; especially when another is a loser by your error.