A Christian Directory, Part 2: Christian Economics

1

1 Cor. vii. 7, 38.

2

Unmarried men are the best friends, the best masters, the best servants; but not always the best subjects: for they are light to run away, and therefore venturous, &c. Lord Bacon, Essay 8.

3

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for the middle age, and old men's nurses. So that a man may have a quarrel to marry when he will. Lord Bacon, Essay.

4

Art thou discontented with thy childless state? Remember that of all the Roman kings, not one of them left the crown to his son. Plutarch. de Tranq. Anim.

5

Non bene fit quod occupato animo fit. Hieron. Epist. 5. 3. ad Paulin.

6

A single life doth well with churchmen: for charity will hardly water the ground, where it must fill a pool. Lord Bacon, Essay 8. The greatest works and foundations have been from childless men, who have sought to express the image of their minds that have none of their body: so the care of posterity hath been most in them that had no posterity. Lord Bacon, Essay 7. He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune. For they are impediments to great enterprises. – The best works, and of greatest merit, for the public, have proceeded from unmarried and childless men. Id. ibid. Essay 8.

7

The case of polygamy is so fully and plainly resolved by Christ, that I take it not to be necessary to decide it, especially while the law of the land doth make it death.

8

By this you may see how to resolve the cases about vows and covenants which are the grand controversies of this time among us.

9

Gen. ii. 18; Prov. xviii. 22.

10

Matt. v. 31, 32; xix. 9; John viii. 4, 5, of adultery; Heb. xiii. 4; Prov. xxii. 14; Hos. iv. 2, 3; Prov. ii. 17; 1 Cor. vi. 15, 19; Mal. ii. 15; Prov. vi. 32, 35; Deut. xxiii. 2; Lev. xxi. 9; xviii. 28; Numb. xxv. 9; Jer. v. 7-9; Gen. vi. 2, 3, &c.; xxxiv. 27; 2 Sam. xiii. 22; xii. 10; Judg. xx. 10; Jer. xxiii. 14.

11

Rev. xxi. 8; Prov. v. 20; 2 Pet. ii. 10, 12, 14. Read before part i. ch. 8. part 5. tit. 1.

12

1 Kings xi. 4; Acts v. 2. Eve is Adam's tempter. Job ii. 9.

13

1 Thess. v. 11; Heb. xii. 15; Col. ii. 19; Eph. iv. 16; 1 Cor. vii. 5; Gen. xxxv. 2, 4; Lev. xix. 17.

14

Numb. xvi. 27, 32.

15

Gen. ii. 18.

16

Matt. xxvii. 19.

17

Rom. xiii. 13, 14; Eph. v. 29, 31; Gen. ii. 18.

18

Gen. xxvii. 14.

19

Eph. v. 29, 31; Job xix. 17; ii. 9.

20

See Prov. xxxi; Gen. xxxi. 40; Tit. ii. 5; 1 Tim. v. 14; v. 8.

21

1 Sam. xxv. 25; Matt. xviii. 16; i. 19; 2 Sam. xi. 7; Prov. xxxi. 28; Eccl. vii. 3; Prov. xxii. 1; 2 Sam. vi. 20; Gen. ix. 22, 25.

22

1 Tim. ii. 4, 12; Gen. xviii. 19; xxxv. 2, &c.; Josh. xxiv. 14; Psal. ci.

23

Heb. xiii. 2; Gen. xviii. 6, &c.; Rom. xii. 13; 2 Cor. ix. 6; Luke xvi. 9; 1 Tim. iii. 2; v. 10; Prov. xi. 20, 28; Neh. viii. 1; Prov. xix. 17; Job xxix. 13; xxxi. 20; Acts xx. 35.

24

See Dr. Gouge on Family Relations, who saith the most against women's giving.

25

2 Sam. xxv. 18, 29, 30; Prov. xxxi. 11-13, 20; Hos. vi. 6; Matt. ix. 13; xii. 7; 2 Kings iv. 9, 22.

26

John iii. 6; Eph. ii. 2, 3.

27

See my Treatise for Infant Baptism.

28

Isa. iii. 7-9, 11; Psal. xv. 4; ci.; x. 2-4.

29

It was one of the Roman laws of the twelve tables, Filius arte carens, patris incuria, eidem vitæ necessaria ne præstato. Alioqui parentes nutrire cogitor. A son that is taught no trade to live by, shall not be bound to keep his parents in want, but others shall. Ezek. xvi. 49.

30

Read Mr. Tho. White's little book for little children. Mark ix. 36; x. 14, 16.

31

2 Cor. v. 17; Rom. viii. 9, 13; John iii. 3, 5, 6.

32

1 Cor. x. 31.

33

Psal. lxxxi. 10-12.

34

Exod. xx. 12; Rom. xiii. 7.

35

Acts x. 7.

36

Prov. xxv. 9; xi. 13; xx. 19.

37

Phil. iii. 18, 19.

38

Rom. viii. 28.

39

Col. iv. 1.

40

Eph. iv. 28; Prov. x. 4; xii. 24, 27; xiii. 4; xxi. 5; xxii. 29; xviii. 9; xxi. 25; xxiv. 30.

41

Antequam domo quis exeat, quid acturus sit, apud se pertractet. Rursus cum redierit, quid egerit, recogitet. Cleobulus in Laert. p. 59.

42

See Dr. Hammond's Annotat.

43

Since the writing of this, I have published a Treatise of the Lord's day.

44

Mark xvi. 2, 9; Luke xxiv. 1.

45

Prov. iv. 1, 20; v. 1; vii. 24; Neh. i. 6, 11; Psal. cxxx. 2; Prov. xxviii. 9.

46

2 Cor. vi. 1.

47

Mark iv. 24.

48

Read chap. iii. direct. i. And against unbelief, part. i.

49

1 Cor. ii. 10, 12; xii. 8-10.

50

Xenophon primus omnium quae dicebantur, notis excepta in publicium edidit. Laert. in Xenoph.

51

Saith Aristippus, (in Laert.) As they are not the health-fullest that eat most, so are they not the learnedest that read most, but they that read that which is most necessary and profitable.

52

It is in my Universal Concord, and by itself.

53

The Stoics say, Orabit sapiens ac vota faciet bona à diis postulans. Laert. in Zenone. So that when Seneca saith, Cur Deos precibus fatigatis, &c. he only intendeth to reprove the slothful, that think to have all done by prayer alone, while they are idle and neglect the means.

54

Plerumque hoc negotium plus genscibus quam sermonibus agitur. August. Epist. 121.

55

Bias navigabat aliquando cum impiis, et quum navis tempestate, quateretur, illique Deos invocarent; silete, inquit, ne vos hic illi navigare sentiant. Laert. p. 55.

56

Of the method of the Lord's Prayer, see Ramus de Relig. Christ. lib. iii. cap. 3. et Ludolphus de Vita Christi, part i. cap. 37. et Perkins in Orat. Dom. and Dr. Boys on the Liturgy, p. 5-7.

57

Selden in Eutychii Alexandr. Orig. p. 42, 43, showeth that before Ezra the Jews prayed without forms, and that Ezra and the elders with him, composed them a form which had eighteen benedictions and petitions, that is, the three first and the three last for the glorifying God, and the rest intermediate for personal and public benefits. And, pag. 48, that they might omit none of these, but might add others.

58

See Selden ubi supra, proving that the Jews had a form of prayer since Ezra's time; therefore it was in Christ's time. Yet he and his apostles joined with them, and never contradicted or blamed them for forms.

59

Three or four of these cases as to church prayers are largelier answered afterward, part iii. Socrates alius Cous deorum precationes, invocationesque conscripsit. Laert. in Socrate.

60

Psal. xlii. 9; xxii. 1; John ii. 14; Jer. xxxi. 9; Luke xv. 12, 17, 19; Mal. ii. 10.

61

Acts xv. 17; xvii. 27; viii. 22; Isa. lv. 6; Psal. xiv. 4.

62

Heb. xi. 6; Rom. x. 14.

63

Psal. lxv. 2; Isa. lxiii. 16; Psal. cxlv. 18; 1 Kings viii. 39; Acts i. 24; Rom. viii. 27; x. 14; Psal. lxii. 8; Matt. iv. 9.

64

Rev. xxii. 8, 9; Col. ii. 18.

65

Mark that I say but "at that time."

66

Mark xi. 23, 24.

67

Rev. iii. 17, 18.

68

Symmach. Epist. 31. 1. 1. ad Auson.

69

See Mr. Mayo's Directions on this case.

70

See my "Confession" of this at large.

71

Matt. xxvi. 28; Mark xiv. 24; Luke xxii. 20; 1 Cor. xi. 25; Heb. ix. 15-18; 1 Cor. x. 16, 24; John vi. 32, 35, 51, 58.

72

1 Cor. xi. 27-29, 31; x. 16, 17, 21; xi. 25, 26; vi. 14; Acts ii. 42, 46; xx. 7.

73

Rom. vi. 9; 1 Cor. xv. 3; 2 Cor. v. 14, 15; Heb. ix. 16; x. 12, 16; ix. 24.

74

Non absque probatione et examine panem illum præbendum esse neque novis neque veteribus Christianis. Quod siquis est fornicator, aut ebriosus, aut idolis serviens, cum ejusmodi etiam communem cibum capere vetat apostolus, nedum cœlesti mensa communicare, saith a Jesuit, Acosta, l. vi. c. 10. And after, Neque enim ubi perspecta est superstitionis antiquæ aut ebriositatis, aut fœdæ consuetudinis macula, ad altare Indus debet admitti, nisi contraria opera illam manifeste et diligenter eluerint. – Christianis concedatur; sed Non-Christiano, dignis moribus subtrahatur. Pag. 549.

75

John iii. 5; 1 Cor. xii. 12, 13; xv. 45; Gal. iii. 14: iv. 6; Eph. ii. 22.

76

Quinam autem indigni, ineptive sint, quibus Angelorum panis præbetur, sacerdotum ipso audita confessione, cæterisque perspectis judicium esto. Acosta, lib. vi. c. 10. pag. 519.

77

2 Cor. xiii. 13; Matt. x. 28.

78

Commandment ii. & iii.; Lev. x. 2, 3.

79

1 Cor. xi. 28, 29.

80

Vide Synod Dortdract. suffrag. Theol. Brit. in Artic. 5.

81

Psal. iv. 4-6.

82

Gildas de Excid. Britt. speaketh thus to the better sort of pastors then; Quis perosus est consilium malignantium? et cum impiis non sedit? Quis eorum salutari in area hoc est, nunc ecclesia, nullum Deo adversantem, ut Noe diluvii tempore, non admisit? ut perspicue monstraretur non nisi innoxios vel poenitentes egregios, in dominica domo esse debere.

83

Mr. Paybodie's book, I think unanswerable.

84

Numb. xxiv. 5; Psal. cxxxiii.; xv. 4; xvi. 2, 3; Luke xix. 8; Psal. lxxxiv. 10.

85

See part i. chap. vii. tit. 10. Of despair.

86

Psalm ciii. 8, 11, 17; lxxxix. 2; lxxxvi. 5, 15; xxv. 10; cxix. 64; cxxxviii. 8; cxxvi. 5.

87

For more particular marks, see those before mentioned in preparation for the sacrament.

88

1 Tim. i. 19.

89

1 Cor. vii. 31.

90

Mic. vi. 5-7.

91

In the Vandals' persecution, Epidophorus, an apostate, was the most cruel persecutor; at last it came to his turn to torment Mirita, that had baptized him, who spread before them all the linens in which he was baptized, saying, Hæc te accusabunt dum majestas venerit judicantis. Custodientur diligentia mea ad testimonium tuæ perditiones, ad margendum te in abyssum putei sulphurantis. Hæc te acrius per-sequentur flammantem gehennam cum cæteris possidentem – Quod facturus es miser cum servi patris familias ad cœnam regiam congregare cœperint invitatos? Ligate eum manibus pedibusque, &c. Hæc et alia Merita dicente, igne conscientiæ ante ignem æternum obmutescens Epidophorus torrebatur. Victor Utic. p. 466.

92

Jam. v. 16; Neh. ix. 2, 3; Matt. iii. 6; Acts xix. 18.

93

Matt. xxvi. 75; Luke xxii. 62.

94

Virlutem Chrysippus amitti posse, Cleanthes vero non posse ait: ille posse amitti per ebrietatem et atram bilem; ille non posse ob firmas ac stabiles comprehensiones, &c. Laert. in Zenone.

95

Nature as not lapsed and nature as restored, incline the soul to the love of God; but not nature as corrupt; nor is it an act performed per modum naturæ, i.e. necessario.

96

Matt. xiii. 12; x. 21.

97

Eph. iv. 14; 1 Thess. v. 12, 13.

98

Luke xiv. 26, 29, 33.

99

Rom. viii. 13; xiii. 13, 14.

100

Prov. xxviii. 6; Jam. ii. 5.

101

Eccles. ii. 14; ix. 2, 3.

102

Psal. x. 15; 1 Sam. ii. 7.

103

Saith Aristippus to Dionysius, Quando sapientia egebam, adii Socratem? nunc pecuniarum egens, ad te veni. Laert. in Aristip.

104

1 Cor. vii. 35.

105

Luke x. 41.

106

Matt. vi.; 1 Pet. v. 7; Phil. iv. 6.

107

Prov. xxiii. 4.

108

Prov. xxx. 8, 9; John vi. 27.

109

Phil. iii. 18, 20, 21; 2 Cor. v. 7, 8.

110

Gal. ii. 20; Psal. lxxiii. 25-28; 2 Cor. i. 10.

111

Eph. iv. 28; Prov. xxi. 25; 1 Sam. xv. 22; 2 Thess. iii. 8, 10.

112

Prov. xviii. 23.

113

Phil. iv. 11-13; Matt. v. 3; 1 Sam. ii. 7; Matt. vi. 25, &c; Psal. lxxviii. 20; Numb. xiv. 11; Matt. xvi. 9; Job xiii. 15; Eccl. v. 12; 1 Cor. vii. 29-31; Psal. lxxxiv. 11; xxxvii. 25; x. 14; lv. 22; Rom. ix. 20; Psal. xxxiv. 9, 10; Rom. viii. 28; Heb. xiii. 5.

114

See more in my "Life of Faith."

115

Heb. x. 34; Luke xviii. 22; Matt. xiii. 20-22; Acts v. 1, &c; ii. 45; Luke xiv. 33.

116

Luke xii. 21; Acts x. 1-3.

117

Jam. v. 1-6.

118

Ezek. xvi.

119

Rom. xiii. 13, 14.

120

Luke x. 40-42.

121

John xv. 5; Mark xii. 41; Luke xii. 48.

122

Matt. v. 16; Gal. 6-10; 1 Pet. ii. 12; Heb. x. 24; Tit. iii. 8, 14; ii. 7; Eph. ii. 10; 1 Tim. ii. 10; v. 10; Acts ix. 36.

123

Matt. xxv. 14, 15.

124

1 Tim. vi. 18; 1 Cor. iv. 1, 2; Luke xvi. 10; 1 Tim. v. 25.

125

In Augustine's speech to the people of Hippo, for Eradius his succession, he saith, In infantia speratur pueritia, et in pueritia speratur adolescentia, in adolescentia speratur juventus, in juventute speratur gravitas, et in gravitate speratur senectus: utrum contingat incertum est; est tamen quod speretur. Senectus autem aliam ætatem quam speret, non habet. Vid. Papor. Massor. in vita Cœlesti. fol. 58.

126

Hic labor extremus, longarum hæc meta viarum est. Virgil.

127

Luke x. 42; Phil. i. 19, 23.

128

Mr. Vines, Mr. Capel, Mr. Hollingworth, Mr. Ashurst, Mr. Ambrose, Mrs. Burnel, &c.

129

Reader, bear with this mixture: for God will own his image when peevish contenders do deny it, or blaspheme it; and will receive those whom faction and proud domination would cast out, and vilify with scorn and slanders.

130

Isa. liii. 10-12.

131

John i. 10-12: iii. 16, 19, 20; Rom. vii. 20-25, 9; Psal. xi. 1-5.

132

Matt. xxviii. 19, 20, 2; John xvii.; Rev. i. 18; Rom. x. 9-12.

133

Heb. xii. 7-9; Rom. viii. 28.

134

Isa. lvii. 1, 2; Phil. i. 21, 23.

135

Matt. xiii.; 2 Thess. i. 6-11.

136

Matt. xviii. 3; Heb. xii. 14; John iii. 3, 5, 6.

137

John iii. 16, 18.

138

Matt. xxviii. 19, 20; 2 Cor. vi. 16-18.

139

Matt. xiii. 19-23; Rom. viii. 7-9; Heb. xii. 14; John iii. 3, 5, 6; Matt. xviii. 3; 2 Cor. v. 17; Eph. vi. 24; 1 Cor. xvi. 22; Luke xiv. 26, 27.

140

Luke xv. 19-22; John vi. 37.

141

Gal. iv. 4, 6; Rom. viii. 16, 17; viii. 9; 1 Pet. iii. 7.

142

Rom. viii. 25, 36; Eph. i. 6, 7; ii. 5, 7, 8; Tit. iii. 3, 5, 6, 7; Rom iii. 24; 2 Cor. xii. 9; Luke xv. 4, 6, 24; Matt. xviii. 11; 2 Pet. iii. 9; John iii. 15, 16; Matt. xviii. 14; Luke xxi. 18; John xviii. 9; vi. 39.

143

Heb. xii. 22; i. 14; Psal. xxxiv. 7; Luke xv. 10; xvi 22; xx. 36; Phil. iii. 10, 20, 21.

144

Heb. xi. 35-38; Matt. xxiv. 6; Psal. xlvi. 9: James iv. 1, 2.

145

Zeph. iii. 17, 18; Ezek. ix. 4; 2 Pet. ii. 7, 8.

146

John xvii. 2, 4; Phil. ii. 7-10.

147

Matt. v. 8; Heb. xii. 14.

148

Acts vii. 56; 2 Cor. xii. 3-5; Gal. i. 4.

149

John xvi. 21; iii. 3, 5, 7, 8.

150

2 Cor. iii. 18; iv. 6; 1 Cor. xiii. 12.

151

1 John ii. 15: John xv. 17-20.

152

Post illam pugnam triumphabimus victores cum nostro signifero in vita æterna: diu in Christum credidi: desidero jam finem fidei, ut non amplius credam in eum, sed videam eum in quem credidi: ut gustem quam suavis fit Dominus, palpem manibus Dominum meum, et Deum meum. Ibi vocabor Abraham, qui lastatur videns diem Christi: expertus sum quod in hac vita peccatum sit omnia in omnibus: experiar etiam aliam vitam, ubi est Dominus omnia in omnibus. Abr. Bucholtzer, referente Abr. Sculteto in Curric. vitæ suæ, pag. 15.

153

2 Tim. i. 10.

154

Zech. iii. 3, 4; John xii. 23, 27, 28; xvii. 1; Acts vii. 59; Psal. xxxix. 5, 7, 8, 11; xxxii. 1-3; Rom. iv. 7, 8, 24; Psal. xxv. 7; xix. 12, 13; 1 Pet. ii. 27; Matt. iii. 15; Heb. ix. 26; Isa. liii. 10, 3, 4, 6-9; Matt. iii. 17; xvii. 5; xii. 18; Rom. v. 1-3, 5, 10; Eph. ii. 14; Heb. x. 10, 12, 14, 18; vii. 25, 26; Eph. i. 6, 7, 11, 13; 1 Pet. ii. 24; Phil. ix. 3, 10, 11; Eph. v. 26, 27; Psal. cxxxix. 16-18; xvi. 6, 7; lxv. 9; xlvi. 4; xlii. 3, 4; lxxxix. 15; xxxvi. 8; John iv. 10, 13, 14; Psal. xlii. 4; cvii. 6, 13, 14.

155

Psal. cvii. 8, 15; l. 15; 2 Cor. i. 9, 10; Psal. xxiii.; cxxxix. 17, 18; Heb. xiii. 5; John xiii. 1; Psal. lvii. 10; cviii. 4; xxxvi. 5; ciii. 17; cxxxvi.; lxiii. 3; Phil. i. 23; Luke ii. 29, 30; 2 Cor. v. 1-8.

156

Phil. i. 21; 2 Cor. iv. 16, 18; 1 Kings xix. 4.

157

Psal. lxxiii. 26.

158

Psal. xxiii. 4-6; John xvii. 24; xii. 26; Acts vii. 59; Luke xxiii. 43; John xx. 17; xiv. 1-3; Psal. xvi. 11.

159

1 Cor. xv. 53-55.

160

Col. iii. 3-5; 2 Thess. i. 10, 11; Phil. iii. 21; Rev. xxii. 20, 27; Eph. v. 26, 27; 1 Cor. xv. 45; Acts iii. 5; John xiv. 19; Rev. xiv. 13; Matt. x. 30; Luke xxi. 18; Heb. xii. 22, 23; Rev. i. 6; Rom. xi. 36; Rev. v. 9, 10; iv. 11, 8; xv. 3; Heb. xii. 9; Matt. vi. 13.