A CHRISTIAN DIRECTORY: OR, A SUM OF PRACTICAL THEOLOGY, AND CASES OF CONSCIENCE. DIRECTING CHRISTIANS, HỌW 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.) . CHRISTIAN ECCLESIASTICS, (OR CHURCH DUTIES.) PART II. CHRISTIAN ECONOMICS, (OR FAMILY DUTIES.) 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' 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? .. 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 24 25 PAGE 32 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. ..., Q. 2. What to do if the law of the land forbid more degrees 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 . ibid. What solemn Worship is What a Family . Proof as to Worship in general Family advantages for Worship The natural obligation on Families to 'worship God.... Families must be sanctified societies ..., Instructing Families is a duty Family discipline is a duty... Solemn prayer and praise are Family duties . Objections answered 48 ibid. 50 51 52 54 57 62 66 67 83 |