A Christian Directory

TOME III. Christian Ecclesiastics.

PART. I.

CHAP. I.
• OF the Worship of God in General. The Nature and Reasons of it, and Directions for it. How to know right Ends in worship, &c. p. 673

CHAP. II.
• Directions about the Manner of worship, to avoid all corruptions, and false unacceptable worshipping of God. p. 680. The disadvantages of ungodly men in judging of holy worship. Q. How far the Scriptures are the Rule or Law of Worship and Discipline, and how far not? Instances of things undetermined in Scripture. What Commands of Scripture are not universal or perpetual? May danger excuse from duty, and when? Rules for the right manner.

CHAP. III.
• Directions about the Christian Covenant with God, and Baptism. p. 688. The Covenant, what? The Parties, Matter, Terms, Forms, necessary Modes, Fruits, &c. External Baptism, what? Compleat Baptism, what? Of Renewing the Covenant.

CHAP. IV.
• Directions about the Profession of our Religion to others. The greatness of the duty of open Profession. When and how it must be made. p. 692

CHAP. V.
• Directions about Vows and particular Covenants with God. p. 694
• What a Vow is. The sorts of Vows. The use, the obligation. Whether any things be indifferent: and such may be Vowed? As Marrying, &c. May we Vow things Indifferent in themselves, though not in their circumstances? In what Cases we may not Vow. What if Rulers command it? What if I doubt whether the Matter imposed be lawful? Of Vowing with a doubting Conscience.
• Tit. 2. Directions against Perjury and Perfidiousness: and for keeping Vows and Oaths: The heinousness of Perjury: Thirty six Rules about the obligation of a Vow, to show when and how far it is obligatory; useful in an age stigmatized with open Perjury. (Mostly out of Dr. Sanderson ). What is the Nullity of an Oath? Cases in which Vows must not be kept. p. 700
• How far Rulers may Nullifie a Vow? Numb. 30. opened. Of the Accidental Evil of a Vow. Of Scandal. Q. Doth an error de persona caused by that person disoblige me? ibid.

CHAP. VI.
• Directions to the people concerning their Internal and private duty to their Pastors, and their profiting by the Ministerial Office and Gifts. p. 714
• The Ministerial Office opened in fifteen particulars: The Reasons of it. The true old Episcopacy. Special duties to your own Pastors above others. Of the Calling, Power, and Succession of Pastors. The best to be preferred. The Order of Minirial Teaching, and the Resolution of faith. How far Human faith conduceth to Divine. Of Tradition: What use to make of your Pastors. to p. 724

CHAP. VII.
• Directions for the discovery of Truth among Contenders, and how to escape Heresy and deceit. Cautions for avoiding deceit in Disputations. p. 725

CHAP. VIII.
• Directions for the Union and Communion of Saints, and for avoiding unpeaceableness and Schism. p. 731
• Wherein our Unity consisteth? What diversity will be in the Churches. What Schism is? What Heresy? What Apostasy? Who are Schismatics? The degrees and progress of it. What Separation is a duty: Q. Is any one form of Church Government of Divine appointment? May man make new Church Officers: The Benefits of Christian Concord; to themselves, and to Infidels. The mischiefs of Schism? Whether Papists or Protestants are Schismatics? The aggravations of Division. Two hindrances of our true apprehension of the evil of Schism. Direrections against it. Of imposing defective Liturgies. The Testimonies of antiquity against the bloody and Cruel way of Curing Schism. Their Character of Ithacian Prelates.

CHAP. IX.
• Twenty Directions how to worship God in the Church Assemblies. p. 755

CHAP. X.
• Directions about our Communion with holy souls departed, now with Christ. p. 758

CHAP. XI.
• Directions about our Communion with the holy Angels. p. 763

The Contents of the Ecclesiastical Cases of Conscience added to the Third Part.
• Q. 1. HOw to know which is the true Church among all pretenders, that a Christians Conscience may be quiet in his Relation and communion? p. 771
• Q. 2. Whether we must esteem the Church of Rome a true Church? And in what sense some Protestant Divines affirm it, and some deny it? p. 774
• Q. 3. Whether we must take the Romish Clergy for a true Ministry? p. 775
• Q. 4. Whether it be necessary to believe that the Pope is the Antichrist? p. 777
• Q. 5. Whether we must hold that a Papist may be saved? p. 778
• Q. 6. Whether those that are in the Church of Rome are bound to separate from it? And whether it be lawful to go to their Mass or other worship? p. 779
• Q. 7. Whether the true calling of the Minister▪ by Ordination or Election be necessary to the essence of the Church? ibid
• Q. 8. Whether sincere faith and Godliness be necessary to the being of the Ministry? And whether it be lawful to hear a wicked man, or take the Sacrament from him, or take him for a Minister? p. 780
• Q. 9. Whether the people are bound to receive or consent to an ungodly intolerable heretical Pastor, (yea or one far less fit and worthy than a competitor) if the Magistrate command it, or the Bishop impose him? p. 781
• Q. 10. What if the Magistrate command the people to receive one Pastor; and the Bishop or Ordainers another, which of them must be obeyed? p. 787
• Q. 11. Whether an uninterrupted succession either of right Ordination or of conveyance by jurisdiction, be necessary to the being of the Ministry, or of a true Church? p. 787
• Q. 12. Whether there be or ever was such a thing in the world, as one Catholic Church constituted by any head besides or under Christ? p. 789
• Q 13. Whether there be such a thing as a visible Catholic Church, and what it is? ibid.
• Q. 14. What is it that maketh a visible member of the universal Church, and who are to be accounted such? p. 790
• Q. 15. Whether besides the profession of Christianity, either testimony or evidence of conversion or practical Godliness be necessary to prove a man a member of the Universal visible Church? ibid.
• Q. 16. What is necessary to a man's reception into membership in a particular Church, over and above this foresaid title? Whether any other trials, or Covenant or What? p. 791
• Q. 17. Wherein doth the Ministerial office Essentially consist? p. 792
• Q. 18. Whether the people's choice or consent is necessary to the office • f a Minister in his first work, as he is to convert Infidels and Baptize them? And whether this be a work of office, and what call is necessary to it? p. 793
• Q. 19. Wherein consisteth the power and nature of Ordination? and To whom doth it belong? and Is it an act of jurisdiction? and Is imposition of hands necessary in it? p, 794
• Q. 20. Is ordination necessary to make a man a Pastor of a particular Church as such? and Is he to be made a General Minister, and a particular Church-Elder or Pastor at once, and at one Ordination? p. 795
• Q. 21. May a man be oft, or twice ordained? p. 796
• Q. 22. How many ordainers are necessary to the validity of Ordination by Christ's Institution, Whether one or more? p. 798
• Q. 23. What if one Bishop Ordain a Minister and three or many or all the rest protest against it, and declare him no Minister or degrade him, is he to be received as a true Minister or not? ibid.
• Q. 24. Hath a Bishop power by divine right to ordain, degrade or govern, excommunicate or absolve in another Diocese or Church, either by his consent, or against it? And doth a Minister that officiateth in another's Church, act as a Pastor; and their Pastor; or as a private man? And doth his Ministerial office cease when a man removeth from his flock? p. 799
• Q. 25. Whether Canons Be Laws, and Pastors have a Legislative power? p. 800
• Q. 26. Whether Church-canons or Pastors directive determinations of matters pertinent to their Office, do bind the Conscience, and what accidents will disoblige the people; you may gather before in the same case about Magistrates Laws, in the Political Directions: As also by an impartial transferring the case to the precepts of Parents and School-masters to Children without respect to their power of the Rod (or supposing that they had none such?) p. 802
• Q. 27. What are Christ's appointed means of the Unity and Concord of the Universal Church, and consequently of its preservation, if there be no human Universal Head and Governor of it upon Earth? And if Christ hath instituted none such, whether prudence and the Law of Nature oblige not the Church to set up and maintain an universal Ecclesiastical Monarchy or Aristocracy; seeing that which is every man's work, is no man's, and omitted by all? p. 802
• Q. 28. Who is the Judge of controversies in the Church? 1. About the Exposition of the Scriptures and Doctrinal points in themselves. 2. About either Heresies or wicked practices, as they are charged on the persons who are accused of them: That is, 1. Antecedently to our practice, by way of regulation. 2. Or consequently by judicial sentence (and execution) on • ffenders? p. 803
• Q. 29. Whether a Parents power over his Children, or a Pastors or many Pastors or Bishops over the same Children as parts of their stocks, be greater, or more obliging in matters of Religion and public Worship? p. 804
• Q. 30. May an office Teacher or Pastor be at once in the stated relation of a Pastor, and a Disciple to some other Pastor? ibid.
• Q. 31. Who hath the power of making Church-Canons? p. 805
• Q. 32. Doth Baptism as such enter the Baptized into the Universal Church; or into a particular Church, or both? and is Baptism the particular-Church-Covenant as such? ibid.
• Q. 33. Whether Infants should be Baptized, I have answered long ago in a Treatise on that Subject?
  • Q. What Infants should be Baptized? And who have right to Sacraments? And whether Hypocrites are univocally or equiv • cally Christians and Church-members, I have resolved in my dispute. of Right to Sacraments. p. 806
• Q. 34. Whether an unbaptized person who yet maketh a public profession of Christianity be a member of the visible Church? And so of the Infants of believers unbaptized? ibid.
• Q. 35. Is it certain by the word of God, that all Infants baptized, and dying before actual sin are undoubtedly saved, or what Infants may we say so of? p. 807
• Q. 36. What is meant by this speech, that Believers and their seed are in the Covenant of God; which giveth them right to Baptism? p. 812
• Q. 37. Are believers Children certainly in Covenant before their Baptism; and thereby in a state of salvation; or not till they are baptized. p. 813
• Q. 38. Is Infants title to Baptism and the Covenant benefits given them by God in his Promises upon any proper moral condition, or only upon the condition of their natural relation: that they be the seed of the faithful? ibid.
• Q. 39. What is the true meaning of Sponsors, (Patrimi) or God Fathers, as we call them; and Is it lawful to make use of them? p. 814
• Q. 40. On whose account or right is it that the Infant hath title to Baptism and its benefits? Is it on the Parents, Ancestors, Sponsors, the Churches, the Ministers, the Magistrates, or his own? p. 815
• Q. 41. Are they really baptized who are Baptized according to the English Liturgy and Canons, where the Parent seemeth excluded, and those to consent for the Infant who have no power to do it? p. 817
• Q. 42. But the great question is How the Holy Ghost is given to Infants in Baptism, and whether all the Children of true Christians have inward sanctifying grace? Or whether they can be said to be justified and to be in a state of salvation, that are not inherently sanctified? and whether any fall from this Infant state of salvation? p. 817
• Q. 43. Is the right of the Baptized (Infants or adult) to the sanctifying operations of the Holy Ghost now Absolute? or suspended on further conditions? And are the Parents further duty for their Children such conditions of their Children's reception of the actual assistances of the spirit? or Are Children's own actions such conditions? and May Apostate Parents forfeit the C • venant benefits to their baptized Infants or not? p. 821
• Q. 44. Doth Baptism always oblige us at the present, and give grace at the present, and is the grace which is not given till long after, given by baptism, or an effect of baptism? p. 823
• Q. 45. What is a proper violation of our Baptismal Covenant? p. 824
• Q 46. May not baptism in some cases be repeated, And when? ibid.
• Quest. 47. Is baptism by Lay men or women lawful in cases of necessity? or are they nullities, and the person to be rebaptized. p. 825
• Q. 48. May Anabaptists that have no other error, be permitted in Church Communion? p. 826
• Q. 49. May one offer his Child to be baptized, with the sign of the Cross, or the use of Chrisms, the white garment, milk and honey or Ex • rcisms as among the Lutherans, who taketh these to be unlawful things? ibid.
• Q. 50. Whence came the ancient universal Custom of Anointing at baptism, and putting on a white garment and tasting milk and honey; and Whether they are lawful to us? p. 827
• Q 51. Whether it be necessary that they that are baptized in infancy, do solemnly at age review and own their baptismal Covenant before they have right to the state and privileges of Adult members? and if they do not, Whether they are to be numbered with Christians or Apostates? p. 827
• Q. 52. Whether the Universal Church consist only of particular Churches and their members? p. 828
• Q. 53. Must the Pastor first call the Church, and aggregate them to himself, or the Church first Congregate themselves and then choose the Pastor? p. 829
• Q. 54. Wherein doth a particular Church of Christ differ from a consociation of many Churches? ibid.
• Q. 55. Whether a particular Church may consist of more Assemblies than one? or must needs meet all in one place? ibid.
• Q. 56. Is any form of Church-Government of Divine Institution? p. 830
• Q. 57. Whether any forms of Churches and Church-Government or any new Church-officers may lawfully be invented and made by ma • ? p. 832
• Q 58. Whether any part of the proper Pastoral or Episcopal power may be given or deputed to a Lay man, or to one of any other office; or their proper work may be performed by such? p. 839
• Q. 59. May a Lay man Preach or expound the Scriptures? or what of this is proper to the Pastors office? p. 840
• Q 60. What is the true sense of the distinction of Pastoral power in foro interiore & exteriore, rightly used? ibid.
• Q. 61. In what sense is it true that some say that the Magistrate only hath the external Government of the Church, and the Pastor the Internal. p 841
• Q. 62. Is the trial, judgment, or consent of the Laity necessary to the admittance of a member into the universal or particular Church? ibid.
• Q. 63. What power have the people in Church Censures and Excommunication? p. 842
• Q. 64 What is the people's remedy in case of the Pastors male-administration? ibid.
• Q. 65. May one be a Pastor or a member of a particular Church who liveth so far from it, as to be uncapable of personal communion with them. p. 843
• Q. 66. If a man be injuriously suspended or Excommunicated by the Pastor or people, which way shall he have remedy? ibid.
• Q. 67. Doth presence always make us guilty of the • vils or faults of the Pastor in God's Worship, or of the Church? or In what cases are we guilty? ibid.
• Q. 68. Is it lawful to communicate in the Sacrament with wicked men? p. 844
• Q. 69. Have all the members of the Church right to the Lord's Table, and is suspension Lawful? ibid.
• Q. 70. Is there any such thing in the Church, as a rank or Classis or species of Church-members at age who are not to be admitted to the Lord's Table but only to the hearing the Word, and Prayer, between Infant members and adult-confirmed ones? p. 845
• Q. 71. Whether a form of Prayer be lawful? p. 847
• Q. 72. Are forms of prayer or Preaching in the Church Lawful? ibid.
• Q. 73. Are public forms of man's devising or composing Lawful? ibid.
• Q. 74. Is it lawful to Impose forms on the Congregation or the people in public Worship? p. 848
• Q. 75. Is it Lawful to use forms composed by man and imposed not only on the people, but on the Pastors of the Churches? ibid.
• Q. 76. Doth not the calling of a Minister so consist in the exercise of his own ministerial gifts, that he may not officiate without them, nor make use of other men's gifts instead of them? p. 849
• Q. Is it lawful to read a Prayer in the Church? p. 850
• Q. 77. Is it Lawful to Pray in the Church without a prescribed or premeditated form of words? ibid.
• Q. 78. Whether are set forms of words, or free praying without them the better way; and what are the Commodities, and Incommodities of each way? p. 851
• Q. 79. Is it Lawful to forbear the Preaching of some truths, upon man's prohibition that I may have liberty to Preach the rest? yea and to promise to forbear them, or to do it for the Churches peace? p. 853
• Q. 80. May or must a Minister silenced, or forbid to Preach the G • spel, go on still to Preach it against the Law? p. 854
• Q. 81. May we lawfully keep the Lord's day as a fast? p. 855
• Q. 82. How should the Lord's day be spent in the main? ibid.
• Q. 83. May the people bear a vocal part in Worship, or do anymore than say, Amen. p. 856
• Q. 84. Is it not a sin for our Clerks to make themselves the mouth of the people, who are not ordained Ministers of Christ? p. 857
• Q. 85. Are repetitions of the same words in Churchpra • ers, lawful? p. 858
• Q. 86. Is it lawful to bow at the name of Jesus? ibid.
• Q. 87. Is it Lawful to stand up at the Gospel as we are appointed? ibid.
• Q. 88. Is it lawful to kneel when the De • alogue is read? p. 859
• Q 89. What Gestures are fittest in all the public Worship? ibid.
• Q. 90. What if the Pastor and Church cannot agree, about singing Psalms, or what Version or Translation to use, or time or place of meeting, &c. ibid.
• Q. 91. What if the Pastor excommunicate a man, and the people will not forbear his Communion, as thinking him unjustly excommunicated? p. 860
• Q. 92. May a whole Church, or the greater part be excommunicated? ibid.
• Q. 93. What if a Church have two Pastors, and one excommunicate a man and the other absolve him, what shall the Church and the Dissenter do? p. 861
• Q. 94. For what sins may a man be denied Communion or Excommunicated; Whether for impenitence in every little sin; Or For great sin without impenitence? ibid.
• Q. 95. Must the Pastor examine the people before the Sacrament? ibid.
• Q. 96. Is the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper a Converting Ordinance? p. 862
• Q. 97. Must no man come to the Sacrament that is uncertain or doubtful of the sincerity of his faith and repentance? ibid.
• Q. 98. Is it Lawful or a duty to join oblations to the Sacrament and how? p. 863
• Q. 99. How many Sacraments are there appointed by Christ? ibid.
• Q. 100. How far is it lawful, needful or unlawful for a man to afflict himself by external penances for sin? p. 864
• Q. 101. Is it lawful to observe stated times of fasting imposed by others, without extraordinary occasions; And particularly, Lent? p. 865
• Q. 102. May we continue in a Church where someone Ordinance of Christ is wanting; as Discipline, Prayer, Preaching or Sacraments, though we have all the rest? p. 866
• Q 103. Must the Pastors remove from one Church to another, when ever the Magistrate commandeth us, though the Bishops contradict it, and the Church consent not to dismiss us? And so of other cases of disagreement? p. 867
• Q. 104. Is a Pastor • bliged to his flock for life; or is it Lawful so to oblige himself; And may he remove without their Consent? And so also of a Church member, the same questions are put. p. 868
• Q. 105. When many men pretend at once to be the true Pastors of a particular Church, against each others title, through differences between the Magistrates, the Ordainers and the flocks, what should the people do, and whom should they adhere to? p. 869
• Q. 106. To whom doth it belong to Reform a Corrupted Church; To the Magistrates, Pastors, or People? p 869
• Q. 107. Who is to call Synods; Princes, Pastors or People? ibid.
• Q. 108. To whom doth it belong to appoint days and Assemblies for public Humiliation and Thanksgiving? p. 870
• Q. 109. May we omit Church Assemblies on the Lord's day, if the Magistrate forbid them? ibid.
• Q. 110. Must we obey the Magistrate if he only forbid us Worshipping God, in such a place, or Country, or in such numbers, or the like circumstances? p. 871
• Q. 111. Must Subjects or Servants forbear weekly Lectures, Reading, or such helps, above the Lord's days worship, if Princes or Masters do forbid them? p. 871
• Q. 112. Whether Religious Worship may be given to a Creature and what? p. 872
• Q. 113. What Images, and what use of Images, is Lawful or Unlawful. p. 873
• Q. 114 Whether Stage-plays where the virtuous and vicious are personated be lawful? p. 877
• Q. 115. Is it ever unlawful to use the known Symbols and badges of Idolatry? p. 878
• Q. 116. Is it unlawful to use the Badge or Symbol of any error or sect in the Worship of God? p. 879
• Q. 117. Are all Indifferent things made unlawful to us, which shall be abused to Idolatr • us Worship? p. 879
• Q. 118. May we use the names of week days which Idolat • rs honored their Idols with, • s Sunday, Monday, Saturday, and the rest; And so the Months? p. 880
• Q. 119. Is it lawful to pray secretly when we come first into the Church, especially when the Church is otherwise employed? ibid.
• Q. 120. May a Preacher kneel down in the Pulpit and use his private prayers when he is in the Assembly? p. 881
• Q. 121. May a Minister pray publicly in his own name singly, for himself or others; or only in the Churches name, as their mouth to God? ibid.
• Q. 122. May the name Priests, Sacrifice, and Altar be lawfully now used instead of Christ's Ministers, Worship, and the Holy Table? p. 882
• Q. 123. May the Communion Table be turned Altarwise and Railed in, And is it lawful to come up to the Rails to communicate? p. 882
• Q. 124. Is it lawful to use David's Psalms in our Assemblies? p. 883
• Q. 125. May Psalms be used as prayers, and praises and Thanksgivings? or only as Instructive; Even the Reading as well as the singing of them? ibid.
• Q. 126. Are our Church-Tunes Lawful being of man's invention? p. 884
• Q. 127. Is Church Music by Organs or such Instruments Lawful? ibid.
• Q. 128. Is the Lord's day a Sabbath, and so to be called and kept, and that of Divine institution, And is the seventh day Sabbath abrogated, &c? p. 885
• Q. 129. Is it Lawful to appoint human Holy days, and observe them? ibid.
• Q. 130. How far is the holy Scriptures a Law and perfect Rule to us? p. 886
• Q. 131. What Additions or human Inventions in or about Religion not commanded in Scripture, are Lawful or Unlawful? p. 887
• Q. 132. I • it unlawful to obey in all th • se cases, where it is unlawful to impose and command, or in what cases; And how far Pastors must be believed and obeyed? p. 888
• Q. 133. What are the additions or inventions of m • n, which are not f • rbidden by the Word of God (whether by Rulers or by private men invented)? p. 889
• Q 134. What are the mischiefs of unlawful Additions in Religion? p. 891
• Q. 135. What are the mischiefs of men's error on the other extreme, who pretend that Scripture is a Rule where it is not, and deny the aforesaid lawful things, on pretence that Scripture is a perfect Rule (say some for all things)? p. 892
• Q. 136. How shall we know what parts of Scripture precept or example were intended for universal constant obligation, and what were but for the time and persons that they were then directed to? p. 893
• Q. 137. How much of the Scripture is necessary to salvation to be believed and understood? p. 894
• Q. 138. How may we know the Fundamentals, Essentials, or what parts are necessary to salvation? And is the Papists way allowable that (some of them) deny that distinction, and make the difference to be only in the degrees of man's opportunities of knowledge? p 895
• Q 139. What is the use and Authority of the Creed; And is it of the Apostles framing or not; And is it the Word of God, or not? p 896
• Q 140. What is the use of Catechisms? p. 897
• Q. 141. Could any of us have known by the Scriptures alone the Essentials of Religion from the rest, if tradition had not given them to us in the Creed as from Apostolical Collection? ibid.
• Q. 142. What is the best method of a true Catechism or sum of Theology? p. 898
• Q. 143. What is the use of various Church-Confessions or Articles of faith? ibid.
• Q. 144. May not the subscribing of the whole Scriptures serve turn for all the foresaid ends without Creeds Catechisms or Confessions? ibid.
• Q. 145. May a man be saved that believeth all the Essentials of Religion as coming to him by verbal Tradition, and not as c • ntained in the Holy Scriptures, which perhaps, he never knew? p. 899
• Q 146. Is the Scripture fit for all Christians, to read, being so obscure? ibid.
• Q. 147. How far is Tradition and men's words and Ministry to be used or true •• ed in, in the exercise of faith? p. 900
• Q 148. How kn • w we the true Canon of Scripture from Apocrypha? ibid.
• Q. 149. Is the public Reading of the Scripture the proper w • rk of the Minister; or may a Lay man ordinarily do it, or another officer? p. 901
• Q 150. Is it Lawful to Read the Apocrypha, or any good Books besides the Scriptures to the Church; as • omili • s, &c? ibid.
• Q 151. May Church Assemblies be held, where there is no Minister? or what public Worship may be so performed by L • y men (As among In • idels or Papists where persecuti • n ha • h killed, imprisoned or expelled the Ministry)? p. 902
• Q. 152. Is it Lawful to subscribe or profess full assent and consent to any religious Books besides the Scriptures, seeing all men are fallible? ibid.
• Q. 153. May we lawfully Swear obedience in all things lawful and honest, either to Usurpers, or to our Lawful Pastors? ibid.
• Q. 154. Must all our Preaching be upon some Text of Scripture? p. 904
• Q. 155. Is not the Law of Moses abrogated? and the wh • le Old Testament out of date, and therefore not to be Read publicly and Preached? ibid.
• Q. 156. Must we believe that Moses Law did ever bind other Nations, or that any other parts of the Scripture bound them or belonged to them? or that the Jews were all God's visible Church on earth? p. 905
• Q. 157. Must we think accordingly of the Christian Churches n • w, that they are only advanced above the rest of the World as the Jews were, but not the only people that are saved? p. 906
• Q. 158. Should not Christians take up with Scripture wisdom only, without studying Philosophy or other Heathens human Learning? p. 907
• Q. 159. If we think that Scripture and the Law of Nature are in any point contradictory to each other, Which must be the standard by which the other must be tried? p. 908
• Q. 160. May we not look that God should yet give us more Revelations of his will, than there are already made in Scripture? ibid.
• Q. 161. I • not a third Rule of the Holy Ghost, or perfecter Kingdom of Love to be expected, as different from the Reign of the Creator and Redeemer? p. 909
• Q. 162. May we not look for Miracles hereafter? p. 910
• Q. 163. Is the Scripture to be tried by the spirit, or the Spirit by the Scripture? and which of them is to be preferred? ibid.
• Q. 164. How is a pretended Prophet, or Revelation to be tried? p. 911
• Q. 165, May one be saved who believeth that the Scripture hath any mistake or errors, and believeth it not all? ibid.
• Q. 166. Who be they that give too little to the Scriptures, and who too much, and what is the danger of each extreme? p. 912
• Q. 167. How far do good men now Preach and pray by the spirit? p. 913
• Q. 168. Are not our own Reasons, studies, memory, strivings, Books, Forms, Methods, and Ministry needless? yea a hurtful quenching or preventing of the Spirit, and setting up our own instead of the spirits operations? p. 914
• Q. 169. How doth the Holy Ghost set Bishops over the Churches? p. 914
• Q. 170. Are Temples, Fonts, Utensils, Church-Lands, much more the Ministry, holy? and What reverence is due to them as holy? p. 915
• Q. 171. What is Sacrilege, and what not? p. 916
• Q. 172. Are all Religious private-meetings, forbidden by Rulers, unlawful Conventicles, or are any such necessary? p. 916
• Q. 173. What particular Directions for Order of Studies and Books should be observed by young Students who intend the Sacred Ministry? p. 917
• Q. 174. What Books should a poor man choose that for want of money or Time can have or read but few. There are three Catalogues set down (but somewhat disorderly as they came into my memory.)
• 1. The smallest or Poorest Library.
• 2. A poor Library, that hath considerable Additions to the former.
• 3. Some more Additions to them, for them that can go higher, With some additional Notes. p. 921

TOME IV. Christian Politicks.

CHAP. I.
• GEneral Directions for an Upright Life. p. 1
• The most passed by on necessary reasons.

CHAP. II.
• A few brief Memoranda to Rulers, for the interest of Christ, the Church and men's salvation. p. 5

CHAP. III.
• Directions to Subjects concerning their duty to Rulers. p. 9. Of the Nature and Causes of Government. Mr. Richard Hookers Ecclesiastical Policy as it is for Popularity, examined and confuted. Directions for obedience. Duty to Rulers. Q. Is the Magistrate Judge in Controversies of faith or worship? p. 20. Q. 2. May the Oath of Supremacy be lawfully taken, in which the King is pronounced Supreme Governor, in all Causes as well Ecclesiastical as Civil? p. 20. Q. 3. Doth not this give the Pastors power to the Magistrate? Q. 4. Hath the King power of Church Discipline and Excommunication? Q. 5. If Kings and Bishops differ, which must be obeyed? Q. Is he obliged to suffer, who is not obliged to obey? p. 25. Of admonition of Rulers. Q. 1. Whether the sound Authors of Politicks be against Monarchy? Q. 2. Whether Civilians be against it? Q. 3. Are Historians against it? Greek, Roman, or Christian? Q. 4. Whether Athens, Rome, Aristotle, Philosophers, Academies be against it? Q. 5. Are Divines and Church discipline against it? Q. 6. Is Scripture and Christianity against it? Objections answered. Q. Are Papists, Prelatists and Puritans against it? Bilson and Andrew's Vindication of the Puritans: Christianity is the greatest help to Government: Further Directions.
• Tit. 2. Q. Whether man's Laws bind the Conscience?
• Q. Is it a sin to break every Law of man? More fully answered. p. 36, 37

CHAP. IV.
• Directions to Lawyers about their Duty to God. p. 39

CHAP. V.
• The Duty of Physicians. p. 43

CHAP. VI.
• Directions to Sch • olmasters about their duties for Children's souls. p. 44

CHAP. VII.
• Directions for Soldiers about their duty in point of Conscience. (Princes, Nobles, Judges and Justices, are past by, lest they take Counsel for injury ). p. 46

CHAP. VIII.
• Advice against Murder. p. 50. The Causes of it. Wars, Tyranny, malignant persecuting fury. Unrighteous judgment, oppression and uncharitableness, Robbery, Wrath, Guilt and Shame, Malice and Revenge, wicked Impatience, Covetousness, Ambition, &c. The Greatness of the sin. The Consequents.
• Tit. 2. Advice against Self-murder. The Causes to be avoided. Melancholy, worldly trouble, discontent, passion, &c. p. 54. Besides Gluttony, Tipling and Idleness, the great Murderers.

CHHP. IX.
• Directions for the forgiving of injuries and enemies, Against wrath, malice, revenge and persecution. Practical Directions. Curing Considerations, Twenty, p. 56

CHAP. X.
• Cases resolved about forgiving wrongs, and debts, and about self defense, and seeking • ur Right, by Law or otherwise. p. 61
• Q. What injuries are we bound to forgive, Neg. and Affir. resolved.
• Q. 2. What is the meaning of Matth. 5. 38, &c. Resist not evil, but whosoever shall smite thee, &c. p. 63
• Q. 3. Am I bound to forgive another if he ask me not forgiveness? Luke 17. 3, &c. p. 64
• Q. 4. Is it lawful to sue another at Law? 1 Cor. 6. 7.
• Q. 5. Is it lawful to defend our lives or estates against a Robber, Murderer, or unjust Invader by force of Arms?
• Q. 6. Is it lawful to take away another's life in defending my purse or estate only? p. 65
• Q. 7. May we kill or wound another in defense or vindication of our honor or good name? p. 66

CHAP. XI.
• Special Directions to escape the guilt of persecution: Determining much of the Case about Liberty in matters of Religion. p 67. What is persecution. The several kinds of it. The greatness of the sin. Understand the Case of Christ's interest in the world. Q. Whether particular Churches should require more of their members as Conditions of Communion, than the Catholic Church? and What? Penalties to be chosen that hinder the Gospel least. More Directions, to the number of forty one.

CHAP. XII.
• Directions against Scandal as Given. p. 80. What Scandal is, and what not? The sorts of scandalizing. The Scripture sense of it. Twenty Directions.

CHAP. XIII.
• Directions against Scandal taken, or an aptness to receive hurt by the words or deeds of others: Especially quarrelling with Godliness. p. 88. or taking encouragement to sin. Practical Directions against taking hurt by others. p. 90.

CHAP. XIV.
• Directions against soul-murder and partaking of other men's sins. p. 92
• The several ways of destroying souls. How we are not guilty of other men's sin and ruin.

CHAP. XV.
• General Directions for furthering the salvation of others. p. 95

CHAP. XVI.
• Special Directions for holy Conference, Exhortation and Reproof.
• Tit. 1. Motives to holy Conference and Exhortation. p 97
• Tit. 2. Directions to Christian edifying discourse. p. 100
• Tit. 3. Special Directions for Exhortations and Reproofs. p. 101

CHAP. XVII.
• Directions for keeping Peace with all men. How the Proud do hinder Peace. Many more Causes and Cures opened. p. 103

CHAP. XVIII.
• Directions against all Theft, fraud or injurious getting, keeping or desiring that which is another's. p. 107
• Tit. 2. Cases of Conscience about Theft and such injuries? Q. 1. Is it sin to steal to save ones life? Q. 2. May I take that which another is bound to give me, and will not? Q. 3. May I take my own from an unjust borrower or possessor, if I cannot otherwise get it? Q. 4. May I recover my own by force from him that taketh it by force from me? Q. 5. May we take from the Rich to relieve the poor? Q. 6. If he have so much as that he will not miss it, may I take some? Q. 7. May not one pluck ears of Corn or an Apple from a Tree, &c. Q. 8. May a Wife, Child, or Servant take more than a Cruel Husband, Parent, or Master doth all • w? (May Children forsake their Parents for such Cruelty). Q. 9. May I take what a man forfeiteth penally? Q. 10. What if I resolve when I take a thing in necessity to make satisfaction if ever I be able. Q. 11. What if I know not whether the Owner would consent? Q. 12. May I take in jest from a friend, with a purpose to restore it. Q 13. May I not take from another to prevent his hurting himself. Q. 14. May I take away Cards, Dice, Play-books, Papist-books by which he would hurt his soul. Q 15. May not a Magistrate take the Subjects goods when it is necessary to their own preservation? Q 16. May I take from another for a holy use? p. 109, &c.

CHAP. XIX.
• General Directions, and particular Cases of Conscience, • bo • t Contracts in general, and about Buying and selling, borrowing and lending, and Usury in particular. p. 113
• Tit. 1. General Directions against injurious bargaining and contracts, ibid.
• Tit. 2. Cases about Justice in Contracts. p. 114.
• Q. 1. Must I in all Cases do as I would be done by?
• Q. 2. Is a Son bound by the Contracts which Parents or Guardians made for him in his Infancy?
• Q 3. Is one obliged by a Contract made in ignorance or mistake of the matter?
• Q. 4. Doth the contract of a man drunk, or in passion or melancholy bind him?
• Q 5. May another hold such a one to his contract, or if he give or play away his money?
• Q. 6. Am I obliged by Covenanting words without a Covenanting intent?
• Q. 7. May I promise a Robber money to save my life, or to save a greater commodity?
• Q. 8. May I give money to a Judge or Magistrate to hire him to do me justice, and not to wrong me, or not to persecute me?
• Q. 9. If I make such a contract, may the Magigistrate take it of me?
• Q 10. If I promise money to an Officer or Robber under a force, am I bound to pay it when the necessity is over? So of other constrained promises.
• Q. 11. May I promise a Thief or Bribe-taker to conceal him, and must I keep that promise?
• Q. 12. Must I keep a promise which I was drawn into by deceit?
• Q 13. Is it a Covenant when neither of the contracting parties understand each other?
• Q. 14. Must I stand to a bargain made for me by a friend or servant, to my injury?
• Q. 15. If I say I will give one this or that, am I bound to give it him?
• Q 16. Doth a mental promise not uttered oblige?
• Q. 17. May I promise to do a thing simply unlawful, without a purpose to perform it, to save my life?
• Q. 18. May anything otherwise unlawful become a duty upon a promise to do it?
• Q. 19. May he that promised for a reward to promote another's sin, take the reward when he hath done it?
• Q. 20. Am I bound by a contract without witness or legal form?
• Q 21. May an Office in a Court of Justice be bought for money?
• Q. 22. May a place of Magistracy or Judicature be bought?
• Q. 23. May one sell a Church Benefice or Orders?
• Q. 24 May one buy Orders or a Benefice?
• Q. 25. May I give money to Servants or Officers to assist my Suit?
• Q. 26. May I after give by way of gratitude to the Bishop, Patron? &c.
• Q. 27. May a Bishop or Pastor take money for Sermons, Sacraments, or other Offices?
• Q. 28. May I disoblige another of his promise made to me?
• Q. 29. What if it be sec • nded by an Oath?
• Q. 30. Doth a promise bind, when the cause or reason proveth a mistake?
• Q 31. What if a following accident make it more to my hurt than could be foreseen?
• Q. 32. Or if it make it injurious to a third person?
• Q. 33. Or if a f • llowing accident make the perf • rmance a sin?
• Q. 34. Am I bound to him that breaketh Covenant with me?
• Q. 35. May I contract to do that, which I foresee like to become impossible, before the time of performance?
• Tit. 3. Cases about Justice in Buying and Selling. p. 120
• Q 1. Am I bound to endeavor the gain of him that I bargain with as well as my own?
• Q. 2. May I take more for my labor or goods than the worth, if I can get it?
• Q. 3. May I ask more in the Market than the worth?
• Q. 4. How shall the worth of a Commodity be judged of?
• Q. 5. May I conceal the faults, or make a thing seem better than it is, by setting the best side outward, adorning, &c.
• Q. 6. If I was deceived, or gave more than the worth, may I do so to repair my loss?
• Q. 7. If I foresee a cheapness of my Commodity (as by coming in of Ships, &c. ) must I tell the buyer of it that knoweth it not?
• Q. 8. May I keep my Commodity if I foresee a dearth?
• Q. 9. May one use many words in buying and selling?
• Q. 10. May I buy as cheap as I can, or below the worth?
• Q. 11. May I sell dearer for another's necessity? (Cases instanced in).
• Q. 12. May I take advantage of the buyers ignorance?
• Q. 13. May I strive to get a good bargain before another?
• Q. 14. May I buy a thing, or hire a servant, which another is first about, or call away his Chapman?
• Q. 15. May I dispraise another's Commodity, to draw the buyer to my own?
• Q. 16. What to do in cases of doubtful equity?
• Q. 17. What if the buyer lose the thing bought before the payment? (as, a Horse die, &c. )
• Q. 18. If the thing bought (as Amber-Chryse, Jewels, &c. ) prove of much more worth than either party expected, must more be after paid?
• Q. 19. What if the title prove bad which was before unknown?
• Q. 20. If a change of powers overthrow a title speedily, who must bear the l • ss? p. 120
• Tit. 4. Cases about Lending and B • rrowing.
• Q 1. May one borrow money, who seeth no probability that he shall be able to repay it?
• Q 2. May one drive a Trade with borrowed money, when success and repayment is uncertain?
• Q. 3. May be that cannot pay his debts, retain anything for his food and raiment?
• Q. 4. May one that breaketh, secure that to his Wife and Children, which on Marriage he promised, before he was in debt?
• Q. 5. May one that breaketh retain somewhat to set up again, by compounding with his Creditors?
• Q. 6. May I in necessity break my day of payment?
• Q. 7. May I borrow of one to keep day with another?
• Q. 8. May one that hath no probability of paying the last man, borrow of one to pay another?
• Q. 9. Is it lawful to take pledges, pawns or mortgages for security?
• Q. 10. May a fo • feiture, pledge or mortgage be kept, on Covenant breaking?
• Q. 11. May I take the promise or bond of a third person as security for my money?
• Q. 12. Is it lawful to lend upon usury, interest or increase?
• Q. 13. Whom are we bound to lend to?
• Q. 14. Is it lawful to take money on usury, in such cases as the Lender sinneth in?
• Q 15. Doth not contracting for a certain sum make usury the more unlawful? p. 124
• Tit. 5. Cases about Lusory Contracts.
• Q. 1. Is it lawful to lay wagers about the truth of our discourses?
• Q. 2. Is it lawful to lay wagers about Horse-races, Dogs, Hawks, &c.
• Q. 3. May one give money to see Games or Activities, Bear-baitings, Plays, &c.
• Q 4. Is it lawful to play for money at Cards, Dice, Lottery, &c.
• Q. 5. Or at Games, of Activity, as Bowling, Shooting, Running, &c.
• Q. 6. If the looser prove angry and unwilling to pay, may I get it of him by Law? p. 129
• Tit. 6. Cases about losing and finding.
• Q. 1. Must we seek out the loser to restore what we find?
• Q. 2. May I take a reward as my due, for restoring what I found?
• Q. 3. May I wish to find anything in my way, or be glad that I find it?
• Q. 4. May I not keep it, if no owner be found.
• Q. 5. If others be present when I find it, may I not conceal, or keep it to myself?
• Q 6. Who must stand to the loss of goods trusted to another? p. 130
• Tit. 7. Directions to Merchants, Factors, Travelers, Chaplains, that live among Heathens, Infidels or Papists? p. 131
• Q. 1. Is it lawful to put ones self or servants, specially young unsettled Apprentices, into the temptations of an Infidel, or Popish Country, merely to get Riches as Merchants do? p. 131
• Q. 2. May a Merchant or Ambassador leave his Wife, to live abroad? p. 132
• Q. 3. Is it lawful for young Gentlemen to travail into other Kingdoms, as part of their education? The danger of Common Traveling. p. 133
• Directions for all these Travelers in their abode abroad. p. 135

CHAP. XX.
• Motives and Directions against Oppression. The sorts of it. The greatness of the sin of Oppression. The Cure. p. 137
• Tit. 2. Cases about Oppression, especially of Tenants. p. 140
• Q. 1. Is it lawful to buy land of a liberal Landlord, when the buyer must needs set it dearer than the S • l • er did?
• Q. 2. May one take as much for his Land as it is worth?
• Q. 3. May he raise his Rents?
• Q. 4. How much below the full worth must a Landlord set his Land?
• Q. 5. May not a Landlord that is in debt, or hath a payment to pay, raise his Rents to pay it?
• Q. 6. If I cannot relieve the honest poor, without raising the Rent of Tenants that are worthy of less charity, may I do it?
• Q. 7. May I penally raise a Tenants Rent, or turn him out, because he is a bad man?
• Q. 8. May one take house or Land while another is in possession of it?
• Q. 9. May a rich man put out his Tenants to lay the Lands to his own d • mesnes?
• Q. 10. May one Tenant have divers Tenements?
• Q. 11. May one have divers Trades?
• Q. 12. Or keep shops in several Market Towns.

CHAP. XXI.
• Cases and Directions about Prodigality and sinful waste.
• What it is? p. 143. Ways of sinful waste.
• Q. 1. Are all men bound to fare alike? Or what is excess?
• Q. 2. What cost on visits and entertainments is lawful? (Whether the greatest good is still to be preferred?)
• Q. 3. What is excess in buildings?
• Q. 4. May we not in building, diet, &c. be at some charge for our Delight, as well as for Necessity?
• Q. 5. When are Recreations too costly?
• Q. 6. When is Apparel too costly?
• Q. 7. When is Retinue, Furniture and other pomp too costly?
• Q. 8. When is House-keeping too costly?
• Q. 9. When are Children's Portions too great?
• Q. 10. How far is frugality in small matters a duty?
• Q. 11. Must all labor in a Calling?
• Q. 12. May one desire to increase and grow rich?
• Q. 13. Can one be prodigal in giving to the Church?
• Q. 14. May one give too much to the poor?
• Q. 15. May the Rich lay out on conveniences, pomp or pleasure, when multitudes are in deep necessities?
• Directions against Prodigality. p. 143, &c.

CHAP. XXII.
• Cases and Directions against injurious Law suits, witnessing and judgment. p. 148
• Tit. 1. Cases of Conscience about Law suits and proceedings.
• Q. 1. When is it Lawful to go to Law?
• Q. 2. May I Sue a poor man for a Debt or Trespass?
• Q. 3. May I Sue a Surety whose interest was not concerned in the debt?
• Q. 4. May I Sue for the Use of Money?
• Q. 5. May Law Suits be used to vex and humble an insolent bad man?
• Q. 6. May a rich man use his friends and purse to bear down a poor man that hath a bad cause?
• Q. 7. May one use such forms in Law Suits (Declarations, Answers, &c. ) as are false, according to the proper sense of the words?
• Q. 8. May a guilty person plead Not guilty?
• Q. 9. Is a man bound to accuse himself, and offer himself to justice?
• Q. 10. May a witness voluntarily speak that truth, which he knoweth will be ill used?
• Q. 11. May a witness conceal part of the truth?
• Q. 12. Must a Judge or Jury proceed secundum allegata & probata, when they know the witness to be false or the Cause bad, but cannot evince it?
• Tit 2. Directions against these sins. p. 150. The evil of unjust Suits. The evil of false witness. The evil of unjust judgments. The Cure. p. 150

CHAP. XXIII.
• Cases of Conscience and Directions against backbiting, Slandering and Evil speaking. p. 152
• Tit. 1. Q. 1. May we not speak evil of that which is evil?
• Q. 2. May not the contrary be sinful silence and befriending men's sins?
• Q. 3. What if Religious credible persons report it?
• Q. 4. If I may not speak it, may I not believe them?
• Q. 5. May we not speak ill of open persecutors or enemies of Godliness?
• Q. 6. What if it be one whose reputation countenanceth his ill Cause, and his defamation would disable him?
• Q. 7. If I may not make a true Narrative of matters of fact, how may we write true Histories for posterity?
• Q. 8. What if it be one that hath been of • admonished?
• Q. 9. Or one that I cannot speak to, face to face.
• Q. 10. In what Cases may we open another's faults?
• Q. 11. What if I hear men praise the wicked, or their sins?
• Tit 2. Directions against back-biting, slandering and evil speaking. p. 154
• Tit. 3. The great evil of these sins. p. 155

CHAP. XXIV.
• Cases of, and Directions against Censoriousness, and sinful judging. p. 157
• Tit. 1. Cases. Q. 1. Am I not bound to judge truly of everyone as he is?
• Q. 2. How far may we judge ill of one by outward appearance, as face, gesture, &c.
• Q. 3. How far may we censure on the report of others?
• Q. 4. Doth not the fifth Command bind us to judge better of Parents and Princes than their lives declare them to be?
• Q. 5. Whom must we judge sincere and holy Christians?
• Q. 6. Is it not a sin to err, and take a man for better than he is?
• Q. 7. Whom must I take for a visible Church member?
• Q. 8. Whom must I judge a true Worshipper of God?
• Q. 9. Which must I take for a true Church?
• Q. 10. Whom must we judge true Prophets, and true Pastors of the Church? p. 157
• Tit. 2. Directions for the Cure of sinful Censoriousness. p. 159
• Tit. 3. The evil of the sin of Censoriousness. p. 160
• Tit. 4. Directions for those that are rashly censured by others? p. 162

CHAP. XXV.
• Cases and Directions about Trusts and Secrets? p. 163
• Tit. 3. The Cases. Q. 1. How must we not put our Trust in man?
• Q. 2. Whom to choose for a Trust?
• Q. 3. When may I commit a secret to another?
• Q. 4. Must I keep a secret when I am trusted with it, but promise it not?
• Q. 5. What if a secret be revealed to me, without desire to conceal it?
• Q. 6. What if it be against the King or State?
• Q. 7. What if it be against the good of a third person?
• Q. 8. What if a man in Debt do trust his Estate with me to defraud his Creditors?
• Q. 9. What if a delinquent intrust his Person or Estate with me to secure it from penalty?
• Q. 10. What if a friend entrust his Estate with me, to secure it from some great Taxes to the King?
• Q. 11. What if a man that suffereth for Religion commit his person or Estate to my trust?
• Q. 12. If a Papist or erroneous person entrust me to Educate his Children in his error when he is dead, I being of his mind, must I perform it when I am better informed?
• Q. 13. What if one turn Papist, &c. after another hath committed his Children to him?
• Q. 14. Must I wrong my Estate to satisfy a dying friend in taking a trust?
• Q. 15. What if after, the trust prove more to my hurt than I could foresee?
• Q. 16. What if he cast the trust on me, without my promise to accept it?
• Q 17. May I not ease myself of a trust of Orphans, by casting it on the surviving kindred, if they calumniate me as unfaithful?
• Tit. 2. Directions about Trusts and Secrets? p. 166

CHAP. XXVI.
• Directions against SELFISHNESS as it is contrary to the love of our Neighbor. The nature and evil of the sin; and the Cure. ibid.

CHAP. XXVII.
• Cases and Directions for Loving our Neighbors as ourselves. p. 168
• Tit. 1. The Cases. Q 1. How must I Love another as myself, in degree, or kind, or only reality?
• Q. 2. What is the true nature of Love to myself and others?
• Q. 3. If none must be Loved above their worth, how doth God love sinners?
• Q. 4. Must I love all in degree as much as myself?
• Q. 5. Must I love anymore than myself?
• Q. 6. Must I love other men's Wife, Children, &c. better than my own, when they are better?
• Q. 7. Who is that Neighbor whom I must love as myself?
• Q. 8. Must we Love and pray for Antichrist, and those that sin against the Holy Ghost?
• Q. 9. Must we not hate God's enemies?
• Q. 10. May I not wish hurt to another more than to myself? p. 168
• Tit. 2. Directions to Love our Neighbors as ourselves. p. 171
• Tit. 3. The Reasons and Motives of Love to our Neighbor. ibid.

CHAP. XXVIII.
• Cases of and Directions for the Love of Godly persons as such. p. 173
• Tit. The Cases. Q. 1. How can we love the Godly, when none can know another to be sincere?
• Q. 2. Must we Love them as Godly that give no account of the time, manner, or means of their Conversion?
• Q. 3. What if they are so ignorant that they know not what faith, repentance, conversion, &c. are?
• Q. 4. Must I take the Visible members of the Church for truly Godly?
• Q. 5. Must we take all visible members equally to be Godly and Lovely?
• Q. 6. Must we love all equally, strong and weak, that seem sincere?
• Q. 7. Must we love those better that have much grace and little useful gifts, or those that have less grace and more profitable gifts for the Church?
• Q. 8. Must we love him as Godly who liveth in any heinous sin?
• Q. 9. Must an Excommunicate person be Loved as Godly, or not?
• Q. 10. Can an unsanctified man truly Love a Godly man?
• Q. 11. Can he love him because he is Godly?
• Q. 12. May he love a Godly man because he would make him Godly?
• Q. 13. Doth any such love the Godly more than others?
• Q. 14. Do all true Christians love all the Godly that wrong them, or differ from them?
• Q. 15. What is that love of the Godly which proveth our sincerity, and which no Hypocrite can reach to?
• Tit. 2. Directions for true Loving the Children of God. p. 176
• Tit. 3. Motives or Meditative helps to Love the Godly? p. 177
• Tit. 4. The hind • rances and enemies of Christian Lo •• . p. 178
• Tit. 5. The Counterfeits of Christian Love. p. 179
• Tit. 6. • ases and Directions for Intimate special friends. p. 180
• Q. 1. Is it lawful to have an earnest desire to be loved by others: Especially by someone above all others?
• Q. 2. Is it lawful, meet or desirable, to entertain that extraordinary affection to any, which is called sp • cial Friendship? or to have one endeared intimate friend, whom we prefer before all others?
• Q. 3. Is it meet to have more bosom friends than • e?
• Q. 4. Is it meet for him to choose any other bosom friend, that hath a pious Wife? and is any so fit for this friendship as a Wife?
• Q. 5. Is it meet to Love a friend for our own commodity? Must I or my friend be the chief end of my Love or friendship?
• Q. 6. May we keep any secret from such a friend? or have any suspicion of him, or suppose that he may prove unfaithful?
• Q. 7. May we change an old bosom friend for a n • w one?
• Q. 8. What Love is due to a Minister that hath been the means of my Conversion?
• Q. 9. What is the sin and danger of Loving another too much?
• Q. 10. What must be the Qualifications of a bosom friend?
• Twenty things necessary to such friendship; so rare as prove it rare:
• Directions for the right use of special friendship. p. 184

CHAP. XXIX.
• Cases and Directions for Loving Enemies and doing them good (beside what is said before Chap. 9. of forgiving them.) p. 189
• Tit. 1. Q. 1. Whom must I account and Love as an Enemy.
• Q. 2. Why and how must an Enemy be loved?
• Q. 3. Must I d • sire God to forgive him while he repenteth not?
• Q. 4. What if he be my Enemy for Religion, and so an Enemy to God?
• Q. 5. What if my benefits enable and embolden him to do hurt?
• Q. 6. May I not hurt an Enemy in my own Defense, and wish him as much hurt as I may do him?
• Q. 7. Must Kings and States Love their Enemies? How then shall they make Wa • ?
• Tit. 2. Motives to Love and do good to Enemies? p. 187
• Tit. 3. Directions for the practice. p. 188

CHAP. XXX.
• Cases and Directions about works of Charity. p. 189
• Tit. 1. The Cases. Q. 1. What are the Grounds and Motives of good works?
• Q. 2. What is a good work which God hath promised to reward?
• Q. 3. What particular good works should one choose at this time, that would best improve his masters stock?
• Q. 4. In what order must we do good works, and who must be preferred?
• Q. 5. Is it better to give in life time or at death?
• Q. 6. and 7. Must we devote a certain proportion of our incomes? and what proportion? A Letter to Mr. Gouge on that question. p. • 92
• Tit. 2. Directions for works of Charity (besides those Tom. 1. Ch. 3. ) p. 199

CHAP. XXXI.
• Cases and Directions about Confessing sins and injuries to others. Tit. 1. The Cases. p. 201
• Q. 1. When must we confess wrongs to those that we have wronged?
• Q. 2. What will excuse us from such Confessions?
• Q. 3. Must I confess a purpose of injury which was never executed?
• Q. 4. When must sins against God be confessed to men?
• Tit. 2. The Directions for just confessing sin to others. p. 202

CHAP. XXXII.
• Cases and Directions about satisfaction and Restitution. p. 203
• Tit. 1. The Cases. Q. 1. What is Satisfaction, what Restitution, and when a duty? Q. Why did they restore fourfold by the Law of Moses?
• Q. 2. How far is Satisfaction and Restitution necessary?
• Q. 3. Who are bound to make it?
• Q. 4. To whom must it be made?
• Q. 5. What Restitution is to be made for dishonoring Rulers or Parents?
• Q. 6▪ How must Satisfaction be made for Slanders and Lyes?
• Q. 7. And for tempting others to sin, and hurting their souls?
• Q. 8. And for Murder or Man-slaughter?
• Q. 9. I • a Murderer bound to offer himself to justice?
• Q. 10. Or to do execution on himself?
• Q. 11. What Satisfaction is to be made by a Fornicator or Adulterer?
• Q. 12. In what cases is a man excused from Satisfaction and Restitution?
• Q. 13. What if Restitution will cost the Restorer more than the thing is worth?
• Q. 14. What if confessing a fault will turn the rage of the injured person against me to my ruin? p. 203
• Tit. 2. The Directions for Practice. p. 206

CHAP. XXXIII.
• Cases and Directions about our obtaining pardon from God. p. 206
• Tit. 1. The Cases. Q 1. Is there Pardon to be had for all sin without exception?
• Q. 2. What if one oft commit the same heinous sin?
• Q. 3. Is the day of Grace and Pardon ever past in this life?
• Q. 4. May we be sure that we are pardoned?
• Q. 5. Can any man pardon sins against God, and how far?
• Q. 6. Is sin forgiven before it be committed?
• Q. 7. Are the Elect Pardoned and Justified before Repentance?
• Q. 8. Is Pardon or Justification perfect before Death?
• Q. 9. Is our pardon perfect as to all sins past?
• Q. 10. May Pardon or Justification be lost or reversed?
• Q. 11. Is the pardon of my own sin to be Believed • ide Divina? and is it the meaning of that Article of the Creed?
• Q. 12. May one in any kind Trust to his own Faith and Repentance for his Pardon?
• Q. 13. What are the Causes and Conditions of Pardon? p. 208
• Tit. 2. Directions for obtaining Pardon from God? p. 209

CHAP. XXXIV.
• Cases and Directions about self-judging. p. 210
• Tit. 1. The Cases. Q. 1. What are the Reasons, Uses and Motives of Self-judging?
• Q. 2. What should ignorant persons do whose capacity will not reach to so high a work as true self-examination and self-judging?
• Q. 3. How far may a weak Christian take the judgment of his Pastor or others about his sincerity and justification?
• Tit. 2. Directions for judging of our Actions. p. 211
• Tit. 3. Directions for judging of our estates, to know whether we are Justified and in a state of life? p. 212, &c

A Christian Directory. THE FIRST PART, CHRISTIAN ETHICKS: OR, DIRECTIONS FOR THE Ordering of the Private Actions of our Hearts and Lives in the work of Holy Self-Government unto and under GOD.

By RICHARD BAXTER.

LONDON, Printed by Robert White, for Nevill Simmons, at the Three Crowns near Holborn -Conduit. 1672.

A Christian Directory. TOM. I. Christian Ethics.

The Introduction.

§. 1. T HE Eternal God, having made Man an Intellectual and Free-agent, able to understand and choose the good, and refuse the evil; to know, and love, and serve his Maker, and by adhering to Him in this life of trial, to attain to the blessed sight and Enjoyment of his Glory in the life to come, hath not been wanting to furnish him with such Necessaries, without which these ends could not successfully be sought: When we had lost our Moral capacity of pleasing him, that we might enjoy him, he restoreth us to it by the wonderful work of our Redemption: In Christ he hath reconciled the world unto himself; and hath given them a general Act of Oblivion, contained in the Covenant of Grace, which nothing but men's obstinate and final unwillingness can deprive them of: To procure their Consent to this gracious Covenant, he hath committed to his Ministers the Word of Reconciliation, commanding us to beseech men, as in the stead of Christ, and as though God himself did beseech them by us, to be reconciled unto God, 2 Cor. 5. 18, 19, 20. and to show them first their sin and misery, and proclaim and offer the true Remedy, and to let them know, that All things are now ready, and by pleading their duty, their necessity and their commodity; to compel them to come in, Matth. 22. 4. Luke 11. 17, 23.

But so great is the Blindness and Obstinacy of men, that the greatest part refuse Consent, being deceived by the pleasures, and profits and honors of this present world, and make their pretended necessities or business the matter of their excuses, and the unreasonable reasons of their refusal, negligence and delays; till death surprise them, and the door is shut; and they knock and cry for Mercy and Admittance when it is too late, Matth. 25. 10, 11, 12.

§. 2. Against this Wilful Negligence and Presumption, which is the principal Cause of the damnation of the ungodly world, I have written many Books already: But because there are many that profess themselves unfeignedly willing, not only to be saved, but also to be Christ's Disciples, to learn of him, to imitate him, and be conformed to him, and to do the will of God, if they could but know it; I have determined, by God's assistance, to write this Book for the Use of such, and to give them from God's Word those plain Directions, which are suited to the several Duties of their lives, and may Guide them safely in their Walk with God, to Life Eternal. Expect not here copious and earnest Exhortations; for that work I have done already, and have now to do with such, as say they are made willing, and desire help against their Ignorance, that Skill and Will may concur to their salvation. I shall labor to speak as Plainly as I can, because I specially intend it for the ignorant; and yet to be competently exact in the Directions, lest such Readers lose the benefit by mistakes; and I must speak to many Cases, because I speak to Families where all are not in the same condition, and the same persons are not still the same: And therefore if I should not be brief in the particulars, I should be too long in the whole, and tediousness might deprive some Readers of the benefit.

In Families some are (too ordinarily) Ungodly, in a carnal, unrenewed state; and some are Godly in a state of Grace: These are considerable as Christians simply, with respect to God; or in their Relations to others: These Relations are either Ecclesiastical, Civil or Domestical, ( Family-relations. )

Accordingly my intended Method is, 1. To Direct Ungodly Carnal minds, how to attain to a state of Grace. 2. To Direct those that have saving Grace, how to Use it; both in the Contemplative and Active parts of their lives; in their duties of Religion, both private and public; in their Duties to men; both in their Ecclesiastical, Civil, and Family Relations. And by the way to Direct those that have Grace, how to discern it, and take the comfort of it: and to Direct them how to grow in Grace, and persevere unto the End.

§. 4. And if any Reader should be discouraged at the Number of Duties and Directions set before him, I entreat him to consider, 1. That it is God and not I, that imposeth all these Duties on you: And who will question his Wisdom, Goodness or Power to make Laws for us and all the world? 2. That every Duty and Direction is a mercy to you; and therefore should not be matter of grief to you, but of Thanks: They are but like the Commands of Parents to their Children, when they bid them [Eat their meat, and wear their clothes, and go to bed, and eat not poison, and tumble not in the dirt; and cut not your fingers; and take heed of fire and water, &c. ] To leave out any such Law or Duty, were but to deprive you of an excellent mercy; you will not cut off or cast away any member of your Body; any Vein, or Sinew, or Artery, upon pretence that the Number maketh them troublesome, when the diminishing of that Number would Kill or M • i • you. A Student is not offended that he hath many Books in his Library; nor a Tradesman that he hath store of Tools, nor the Rich at the Number of his Farms or Flocks. Believe it Reader, if thou bring not a malignant quarrelsome mind, thou wilt find that God hath not burdened, but blessed thee, with his holy Precepts, and that he hath not appointed thee one unnecessary or unprofitable duty; but only such as tend to thy Content, and Joy, and Happiness.

O let it be the daily earnest prayer of me and thee, that our Hearts prove not false and unwilling to follow the Directions which are given us, lest we condemn ourselves in the things which we allow. Your Practice now will show, Whether it be through want of Will or Skill, if henceforth you unfaithfully neglect your duty. If you are willing, obey now what is plainly taught you, and show by your diligence, that you are willing.

CHAP. I. Directions to unconverted graceless sinners, for the attaining of true saving Grace.