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CHRISTIAN DIRECTORY:

OR, A SUM OF

PRACTICAL THEOLOGY,
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.

1. CHRISTIAN ETHICS, (OR PRIVATE DUTIES.)

II. CHRISTIAN ECONOMICS, (OR FAMILY DUTIES.)

III. CHRISTIAN ECCLESIASTICS, (OR CHURCH DUTIES.)

IV. CHRISTIAN POLITICS, (OR DUTIES TO OUR RULERS AND NEIGHBOURS.)

PART II.

CHRISTIAN ECONOMICS, (OR FAMILY DUTIES.)

CONTENTS

OF

THE FOURTH VOLUME.

CHRISTIAN ECONOMICS.

CHAPTER I.

DIRECTIONS about Marriage for Choice and Contract....

Q. Whether Marriage be indifferent? Who are called to
marry? Who may not marry?

Q. What if parents command it to one that it will be a hurt

to? What if I have a corporal necessity, when yet Mar-

riage is like to be a great hurt to my soul? Of parents'

prohibition

Q. What if parents forbid Marriage to one that cannot live
chastely without it? or when affections are unconquerable?
Q. What if the child have promised Marriage, and the pa-
rents be against it ? Of the sense of Numb.. XXX. How far
such promise must be kept?

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Q. What if the parties be actually married without parents'

Q. May the aged marry that are frigid, impotent, sterile?...

The incommodities of a married life to be considered by them

that need restraint....

Several

cases about marrying with an ungodly person.

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Especially to ministers

Further Directions

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How to cure lustful Love .

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Q. 1. What rule to follow about prohibited degrees of con-
sanguinity. Whether the law of Moses, or of nature, or
the laws of the land or church, &c.....

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Q. 2. What to do if the law of the land forbid more degrees

than Moses's law

Q. 3. Of the Marriage of cousin germans, beforehand...

Q. 4. What such should do after they are married

Q. 5. What must they after do that are married in the de-
grees not forbidden by name, Lev. xviii. and yet of the
same nearness and reason .....

........

Q. 6. If they marry in a degree forbidden, Lev. xviii. may not

necessity make it lawful to continue it, as it made lawful the

marriage of Adam's sons and daughters

Q. 7. Whether a Vow of Chastity or Celibate may be broken,

and in what cases

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ibid.

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ibid.

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DISPUTATION, WHETHER THE SOLEMN WORSHIP OF GOD IN AND

BY FAMILIES AS SUCH, BE OF DIVINE APPOINTMENT.

Aff. Proved against the cavils of the profane, and some secta-

ries

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