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CONTENTS
OF
THE FOURTH VOLUME.
CHRISTIAN ECONOMICS.
CHAPTER I.
PAGB
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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? ...
Q. What if the parties be actually married without parents'
consent?
Q. May the aged marry that are frigid, impotent, sterile ?..
The incommodities of a married life to be considered by them
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that need restraint.....
Especially to ministers
Further Directions
How to cure lustful Love
Several cases about marrying with an ungodly person.
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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
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Q. 3. Of the Marriage of cousin germans, beforehand...... ibid.
Q. 4. What such should do after they are married .. 34
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 ...
ibid.
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 ..
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Q. 7. Whether a Vow of Chastity or Celibate may be broken,
and in what cases
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CHAPTER II.
Directions for the choice of 1. Servants
2. Masters
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CHAPTER III.
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
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
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Of the frequency and seasons of Family Worship. 1. Whe-
ther it should be every day. %. Whether twice a day. 3.
Whether morning and evening
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CHAPTER IV.
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General Directions for the Holy Government of Families ....
How to keep up authority
Of skill in Governing..
Of holy willingness
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CHAPTER V.
Special Motives to persuade men to the Holy Government of
their Families ..
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CHAPTER VI.
Motives for a holy and careful Education of Children
.... 105
CHAPTER VII.
The mutual Duties of Husbands and Wives towards each
other
How to maintain due conjugal Love
Of Adultery..
Motives and means against Dissention
Motives and means to further each others' salvation
Further duties
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CHAPTER VIII.
The special Duties of Husbands to their Wives .
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CHAPTER IX.
The special Duty of Wives to their Husbands
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Q. How far may a wife give, without her husband's consent? 150
Q. Of Wives' propriety
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Q. Is a Wife. guilty of her Husband's unlawful getting, if
she keep it ? , And is she bound to reveal it, (as in robbing ?) 152
Q. May a Wife go to hear sermons when her Husband for-
biddeth her? ..
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Q. Must a woman proceed to admonish a wicked Husband
when it maketh him worse? ....
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Q. What she must do in controverted cases of religion, when
her judgment and her Husband's differ
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Q. How long, or in what cases may Husbands and Wives be distant
Q. May the bare commands of princes separate Husbands and
Wives, (as ministers, judges, soldiers ?)
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Q. May Ministers leave their Wives to go abroad to preach
the Gospel ? ..
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Q. May one leave a Wife to save his life in case of personal
persecution or danger?
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Q. May Husband and Wife part by consent, if they find it to
be for the good of both ? .
Q. May they consent to be divorced, and to marry others ? . 159
Q. Doth Adultery dissolve Marriage?.
Q. Is the injured person bound to divorce the other, or left
free?
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Q. Is it the proper privilege of the man to put away an adul-
terous Wife, or is it also in the woman's power to depart
from an adulterous Husband ? ..
Q. May there be putting away, or departing without the Ma-
gistrate's divorce ar licence ?
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Q. What if both parties be adulterous ?
Q. What if one purposely commit adultery to be separate from
the other ? .
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Q. Doth Infidelity dissolve the relation ?
Q. Doth the desertion of one party disoblige the other ? ibid.
Q. Must a woman follow a malignant Husband that goeth
from the means of grace ?
Q. Must she follow him, if it be but to poverty or beggary? 164
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Q. What to do in case of known intention of one to murder
the other? ....
Q. Or if there be a fixed hatred of each other?
Q. What if a man will not suffer his wife to hear, read, or
pray: or do beat her so, as to unfit her for duty: or a wo-
man will rail at the Husband in prayer time? &c.
Q. Who may marry after parting or divorce ?.
Q. Is it lawful to suffer, yea, or contribute to the known sin
materially of Wife, Child, Servant, or other relations? : Where is opened what is in our power to do against sin, and
what not
Q. If a Gentleman have a great estate by which he may do
much good, and his Wife be so proud, prodigal, and peevish,
that if she may not waste it all in housekeeping and pride,
she will die or grow mad, or give him no quietness, what is
his duty in so sad a case ? ,
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CHAPTER X.
The Duties of Parents for their Children. Where are twenty
special Directions for their education
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CHAPTER XI.
The Duties of Children towards their Parents
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CHAPTER XII.
The special Duties of Children and Youth towards God ....
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CHAPTER XIII.
The Duties of Servants to their Masters
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