A Christian Directory, Or, A Body of Practical Divinity and Cases ..., Volume 5

Directions against Selfishness, as it is contrary to the love of

CHAPTER XXVI.

our neighbour. The Nature and Evil of the sin, and the

Cure

Cases and Directions for Loving our Neighbours as ourselves 425

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CHAPTER XXVII.

Tit. 1. Cases of Conscience about Loving our Neighbour.. ibid.

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?.. ibid.
Q.3. If none must be loved above their worth, how doth God

love sinners? ........

417

ibid.

419

Q. 4. Must I love all in degree as much as myself?
Q. 5. Must I love any more than myself?

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Q. 6. Must I love other men's wife, children, &c. better than
my own, when they are better?
ibid.
Q.7. Who is that neighbour whom I must love as myself?.. 430
Q. 8. Must we love and pray for antichrist, and those that sin

against the Holy Ghost? ......

421

Q. 9. Must we not hate God's enemies?

426

429

ibid.

Q. 10. May I not wish hurt to another more than to myself? 431-

Tit. 2. Directions to love our Neighbours as ourselves...... ibid.

Tit. 3. The Reasons and Motives of love to our Neighbour.. 433

CHAPTER XXVIII.

Cases of, and Directions for the Love of Godly Persons as such 436

Tit. 1. Cases of Conscience about Love to the Godly ....... ibid.

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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

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time, manner, or means of their conversion?

............................ ibid.

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?..

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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? ibid.

Q. 9. Must an excommunicate person be loved as godly or

Q. 10. Can an unsanctified man truly love a godly man?

not?

Q. 11. Can he love him because he is godly?.

Q. 12. May he love a godly man because he would make him

godly?

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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 sin-

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cerity, and which no hypocrite can reach to ?

Tit. 2. Directions for true Loving the children of God

Tit. 3. Motives or meditative Helps to Love the godly

Tit. 4. The Hindrances and Enemies of Christian Love

Tit. 5. The Counterfeits of Christian Love .....

Tit. 6. Cases and Directions for intimate, special Friends .... 453

Q. 1. Is it lawful to have an earnest desire to be loved by

others; especially by some one above all others? .....

Q. 2. Is it lawful, meet, or desirable, to entertain that ex-
traordinary affection to any, which is called special friend-
ship? or to have one endeared, intimate friend, whom we
prefer before all others?
Q. 3. Is it meet to have more bosom friends than one?
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 friend-
ship as a wife?

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438

439

440

441

442

ibid.

443

ibid.

455

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457

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? 457

Q. 6. May we keep any secret from such a friend? or have any

suspicion of him, or suppose that he may prove unfaithful? 458

Q. 7. May we change an old bosom friend for a new one?.

Q. 8. What love is due to a minister that hath been the

tended.................... ibid.

means of my conversion?..............

Q.9. What is the sin and danger of loving another too much? 459

Q. 10. What must be the qualifications of a bosom friend?...

Twenty things necessary to such a Friendship; so rare as

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prove it rare ....

Directions for the right use of special Friendship

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CHAPTER XXIX.

Cases and Directions for Loving Enemies and doing them

good...........

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 desire 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? ibid.

Q. 6. May I not hurt an enemy in my own defence, 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 war?

ibid.

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Tit. 2. Motives to love and do good to enemies

Tit. 3. Directions for the practice.

CHAPTER XXX.

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Cases and Directions about Works of Charity ·

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Tit. 1. Cases of Conscience about Works of Charity ......

Q. 1. What are the grounds and motives of good works?...

Q.2. What is a good work which God hath promised to re-

ibid.

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Q. 3. What particular good works should one choose at this
time, that would best improve his master's stock?

Q. 4. In what order must we do good works, and who must

be preferred?.......

Q. 5. Is it better to give in lifetime or at death?

Q. 6. and 7. Must we devote a certain proportion of our in-

comes? and what proportion? A Letter to Mr. Gouge on

that question

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Tit. 2. Directions for Works of Charity .

CHAPTER XXXI.

Cases and Directions about Confessing Sins and Injuries to

others

Tit. 1. Cases about Confessing Sins and Injuries to others..

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 ex-

ecuted?...

CHAPTER XXXII.

Q. 4. When must sins against God be confessed to men?

Tit. 2. The Directions for just confessing Sin to others

Cases and Directions about Satisfaction and Restitution.... 511

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Tit. 1. Cases of Conscience about Satisfaction and Restitution ibid.

Q. 1. What is satisfaction, what restitution, and when a duty?
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 dishonouring rulers

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482

483

ibid.

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507

ibid.

508

ibid.

ibid.
509

or parents?
ibid.
Q. 6. How must satisfaction be made for slanders and lies?.. ibid.
Q. 7. And for tempting others to sin and hurting their souls?
Q. 8. And for murder or manslaughter ?
Q. 9. Is a murderer bound to offer himself to justice?

ibid.

515

Q. 10. Or to do execution on himself? ....

Q. 11. What satisfaction is to be made by a fornicator or

adulterer?............