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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 5: Tit. 5. Cases of Conscience about Lusory Contracts.
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.
§. 2. Quest. 2. Is it lawful to lay Wagers upon Horse-races, Dogs, Hawks, Bear-baitings, or such1 Games as depend on the activity of Beast or Man?
- 1Quest. 2.
Answ. Yes, upon the two last expressed conditions; and 3. That it be not an exercise which is it self unlawful, by cruelty to Beasts, or hazard to the lives of men (as in Fencing, Running, Wrestling, &c. it may fall out if it be not cautiously done:) or by the expense of an undue proportion of time in them, which is the common malignity of such recreations.
Answ. Yes, upon the two last exprest conditions; and 3. That it be not an exercise which is it self unlawful, by cruelty to Beasts, or hazard to the lives of men (as in Fencing, Running, Wrestling, &c. it may fall out if it be not cautelously done:) or by the expence of an undue proportion of time in them, which is the common malignity of such recreations.
§. 3. Quest. 3. May I lawfully give money to see such sports, as Bear-baitings, Stage-plays, Masks,1 Shows, Puppet-plays, Activities of Man or Beast? &c.
§. 3. Quest. 3. May I lawfully give money to see such sports, as Bear-baitings, Stage-playes, Masks,1 Shews, Puppet-playes, Activities of Man or Beast? &c.