A Christian Directory, Part 2: Christian Economics
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DIRECTIONS ABOUT MARRIAGE; FOR CHOICE AND CONTRACT.As the persons of christians in their privatest capacities are holy, as being dedicated and separated unto God, so also must their families be: HOLINESS TO THE LORD must be as it were written on their doors, and on their relations, their possessions, and affairs. To which it is requisite, 1. That there be a holy constitution of their families. 2. And a holy government of them, and discharge of the several duties of the members of the family. To the right constituting of a family, belongeth, (1.) The right [395] contracting of marriage, and, (2...
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- PART II. CHRISTIAN ECONOMICS:
- CHAPTER I. DIRECTIONS ABOUT MARRIAGE; FOR CHOICE AND CONTRACT.
- Tit. 2. Cases of Marriage.
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER II. DIRECTIONS FOR THE RIGHT CHOICE OF SERVANTS AND MASTERS.
- PART I. Directions for the right Choice of Servants.
- PART II. Directions for the right Choice of Masters.
- CHAPTER III. A DISPUTATION, OR ARGUMENTS TO PROVE THE NECESSITY OF FAMILY WORSHIP AND HOLINESS, OR DIRECTIONS AGAINST THE CAVILS OF THE PROFANE, AND SOME SECTARIES, WHO DENY IT TO BE A THING REQUIRED BY GOD.
- Whether the solemn Worship of God, in and by Families as such, be of Divine Appointment? Aff.
- Objections answered.
- Of the Frequency and Seasons of Family worship.
- CHAPTER IV. GENERAL DIRECTIONS FOR THE HOLY GOVERNMENT OF FAMILIES.
- CHAPTER V. SPECIAL MOTIVES TO PERSUADE MEN TO THE HOLY GOVERNING OF THEIR FAMILIES.
- CHAPTER VI. MORE SPECIAL MOTIVES FOR A HOLY AND CAREFUL EDUCATION OF CHILDREN.
- CHAPTER VII. THE MUTUAL DUTIES OF HUSBANDS AND WIVES TOWARDS EACH OTHER.
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER VIII. THE SPECIAL DUTIES OF HUSBANDS TO THEIR WIVES.
- CHAPTER IX. THE SPECIAL DUTIES OF WIVES TO HUSBANDS.
- Cases about Divorce and Separation.
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER X. THE DUTIES OF PARENTS FOR THEIR CHILDREN.
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER XI. THE SPECIAL DUTIES OF CHILDREN TOWARDS THEIR PARENTS.
- FOOTNOTE
- CHAPTER XII. THE SPECIAL DUTIES OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH TOWARDS GOD.
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER XIII. THE DUTIES OF SERVANTS TO THEIR MASTERS.
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER XIV. THE DUTIES OF MASTERS TOWARDS THEIR SERVANTS.
- Tit. 2. Directions to those Masters in foreign Plantations who have Negroes and other Slaves; being a solution of several cases about them.
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER XV. THE DUTIES OF CHILDREN AND FELLOW-SERVANTS TO ONE ANOTHER.
- CHAPTER XVI. DIRECTIONS FOR HOLY CONFERENCE OF FELLOW-SERVANTS OR OTHERS.
- CHAPTER XVII. DIRECTIONS FOR EACH PARTICULAR MEMBER OF THE FAMILY HOW TO SPEND EVERY ORDINARY DAY OF THE WEEK.
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER XVIII. DIRECTIONS FOR THE ORDER OF HOLY DUTIES.
- Tit. 1. Directions for the holy spending of the Lord's Day in Families.
- Tit. 2. More Particular Directions for the Order of Holy Duties.
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER XIX. DIRECTIONS FOR PROFITABLE HEARING THE WORD PREACHED.
- Tit. 1. Directions for the Understanding the Word which you hear.
- Tit. 2. Directions for Remembering what you Hear.
- Tit. 3. Directions for holy Resolutions and Affections in Hearing.
- Tit. 4. Directions to bring what we hear into Practice.
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER XX. DIRECTIONS FOR PROFITABLE READING THE HOLY SCRIPTURES.
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER XXI. DIRECTIONS FOR READING OTHER BOOKS.
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER XXII. DIRECTIONS FOR THE RIGHT TEACHING OF CHILDREN AND SERVANTS, SO AS MAY BE MOST LIKELY TO HAVE SUCCESS.
- FOOTNOTE
- CHAPTER XXIII. DIRECTIONS FOR PRAYER.
- Tit. 1. Directions for Prayer in General.
- A Brief Explication of the Method of the Lord's Prayer.
- Tit. 2. Some Questions about Prayer answered.
- Tit. 3. Special Directions for Family Prayer.
- Tit. 4. Special Directions for Secret Prayer.
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER XXIV. BRIEF DIRECTIONS FOR FAMILIES, ABOUT THE SACRAMENT OF THE BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST.
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER XXV. DIRECTIONS FOR FEARFUL, TROUBLED CHRISTIANS, THAT ARE PERPLEXED WITH DOUBTS OF THEIR SINCERITY AND JUSTIFICATION.
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER XXVI. DIRECTIONS FOR DECLINING OR BACKSLIDING CHRISTIANS: AND ABOUT PERSEVERANCE.
- Tit. 2. Directions for preventing Backsliding, or for Perseverance.
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER XXVII. DIRECTIONS FOR THE POOR.
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER XXVIII. DIRECTIONS FOR THE RICH.
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER XXIX. DIRECTIONS FOR THE AGED (AND WEAK).
- FOOTNOTE
- CHAPTER XXX. DIRECTIONS FOR THE SICK.
- Tit. 1. Directions for a Safe Death, to secure our Salvation.
- I. Directions for an Unconverted Sinner in his Sickness.
- II. Directions to the Sanctified, for a safe Departure.
- Tit. 2. Directions how to Profit by our Sickness.
- Tit. 3. Directions for a Comfortable or Peaceable Death.
- Directions for resisting the Temptations of Satan, in the time of Sickness.
- Tit. 4. Directions for doing good to others in our Sickness.
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER XXXI. DIRECTIONS TO THE FRIENDS OF THE SICK, THAT ARE ABOUT THEM.
- A Form of Exhortation to the Ungodly in their Sickness (or those that we fear are such).
- A Form of Exhortation to the Godly in their Sickness.
- FOOTNOTES
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