A26892:8809
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. Either you utter or write those words, with a purpose to make another believe that you intend a Covenant; or at least by culpable negligence, in such a manner as he is bound so to understand you, or justified for so understanding you: or else you so use the words, as in the manner sufficiently to signify that you intend no Covenant or self-obligation. In the former case you bind your self (as above said): Because another man is not to be a loser, nor you a gainer or a saver by your own fraud or gross negligence. But in the later case you are not bound: Because an intent of self-obliging is the internal efficient of the obligation: and a signification of such an intent, is the external efficient, without which it cannot be. If you read over the words of a bond, or repeat them only in a Narrative, or ludicrously; •• if a Scr•vener write a form of obligation of himself, to a boy for a Copy, or to a Scholar for a president, these do not induce any obligation in Conscience, nor make you a debtor to another. (Thus also the case of the Intent of the Baptizer, or Baptized (or parents) is to be determined).
Answ. Either you utter or write those words, with a purpose to make another believe that you intend a Covenant; or at least by culpable negligence, in such a manner as he is bound so to understand you, or justified for so understanding you: or else you so use the words, as in the manner sufficiently to signifie that you intend no Covenant or self-obligation. In the former case you bind your self (as above said): Because another man is not to be a loser, nor you a gainer or a saver by your own fraud or gross negligence. But in the later case you are not bound: Because an intent of self-obliging is the internal efficient of the obligation: and a signification of such an intent, is the external efficient, without which it cannot be. If you read over the words of a bond, or repeat them only in a Narrative, or ludicrously; •• if a Scr•vener write a form of obligation of himself, to a boy for a Copy, or to a Scholar for a president, these do not induce any obligation in Conscience, nor make you a debtor to another. (Thus also the case of the Intent of the Baptizer, or Baptized (or parents) is to be determined).