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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. Causeless perplexing melancholy scruples, which would stop a man in the course of his duty, are not to be indulged: But in rational doubts, first use your utmost diligence, (as much as the nature of the cause requireth) to be resolved: and if yet you doubt, be sure to go the safer way, and to avoid sin rather than loss; and to keep your consciences in peace.
§. 18. Quest. 17. If the buyer lose the commodity between the bargain and the payment (as if he buy1 your Horse, and he dye before payment or presently after) what should the seller do to his relief?
- 1Quest. 17.
Answ. If it were by the sellers fault, or by any fault in the Horse which he concealed, he isto make the buyer full satisfaction. If it were casually only, rigorous Justice will allow him nothing: And therefore if it be either to a man that is Rich enough to bear it without any great sense of the loss, or in a case where in common custom the buyer always standeth to the loss, mere justice will make him no amends. But if it be where custom maketh some abatement judged a duty, or where the person is so poor as to be pinched by the loss, that common humanity, which all good men use in bargaining, which tempereth Justice with Charity, will teach men to bear their part of the loss; because they must do as they would be done by.
Answ. If it were by the sellers fault, or by any fault in the Horse which he concealed, he isto make the buyer full satisfaction. If it were casually only, rigorous Justice will allow him nothing: And therefore if it be either to a man that is Rich enough to bear it without any great sense of the loss, or in a case where in common custome the buyer alwayes standeth to the loss, meer justice will make him no amends. But if it be where custome maketh some abatement judged a duty, or where the person is so poor as to be pinched by the loss, that common humanity, which all good men use in bargaining, which tempereth Justice with Charity, will teach men to bear their part of the loss; because they must do as they would be done by.