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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.
Part 4 › Chapter 19 › Section 4: Tit. 4. Cases of Conscience about Lending and Borrowing.
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.
Object. But it may be my ruin to open my full state to another.
Object. But it may be my ruine to open my full state to another.
Answ. You must not live upon cheating and thievery to prevent your ruin? And what can it be less to get another mans money against his will. And it is against his will, if you hide your case, which if he knew he would not lend it to you.
Answ. You must not live upon cheating and thievery to prevent your ruine? And what can it be less to get another mans money against his will. And it is against his will, if you hide your case, which if he knew he would not lend it to you.
Object. But what if I tell him plainly, that I will pay him certainly by borrowing of another, though I cannot pay him of mine own, and though I be not like to pay the last.
Answ. If you truly thus open your case to every one that you borrow of, you may take it, if they will lend it: For then you have their consent: And it is supposed, that every one is willing to run the hazard of being the last Creditor.