Transcriber's Note:
The text of Part II of A Christian Directory (or, a sum of Practical Theology and Cases of Conscience) has been transcribed from pages 394 to 547 of Volume I of Baxter's Practical Works, as lithographed from the 1846 edition. Part II addresses family duties. A table of contents has been inserted to assist the reader.
Inconsistencies in hyphenation, and apparent typographical errors (both English and Greek) have been corrected. The anchor for footnote 34, in chapter XIII, has been inserted after consulting another edition of the text.
The table in Chapter XXIII, that presents the structure of the Lord's Prayer, contains numerous braces that extend over several lines and cannot be reproduced here. Instead horizontal lines have been inserted to clarify its structure. The table may not display clearly in a hand-held device.
PART II.
CHRISTIAN ECONOMICS:
OR,
THE FAMILY DIRECTORY, CONTAINING DIRECTIONS FOR THE TRUE PRACTICE OF ALL
DUTIES BELONGING TO FAMILY RELATIONS, WITH THE APPURTENANCES.
Table of Contents.
| Page | ||
| I. | Directions about marriage; for choice and contract. | [394] |
| II. | Directions for the right choice of servants and masters. | [407] |
| 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. | [409] |
| IV. | General directions for the holy government of families. | [422] |
| V. | Special motives to persuade men to the holy governing of their families. | [424] |
| VI. | More special motives for a holy and careful education of children. | [427] |
| VII. | The mutual duties of husbands and wives towards each other. | [431] |
| VIII. | The special duties of husbands to their wives. | [438] |
| IX. | The special duties of wives to husbands. | [440] |
| X. | The duties of parents for their children. | [449] |
| XI. | The special duties of children towards their parents. | [454] |
| XII. | The special duties of children and youth towards God. | [457] |
| XIII. | The duties of servants to their masters. | [458] |
| XIV. | The duties of masters towards their servants. | [460] |
| XV. | The duties of children and fellow-servants to one another. | [463] |
| XVI. | Directions for holy conference of fellow-servants or others. | [464] |
| XVII. | Directions for each particular member of the family how to spend every ordinary day of the week. | [466] |
| XVIII. | Directions for the order of holy duties. | [470] |
| XIX. | Directions for profitable hearing the word preached. | [473] |
| XX. | Directions for profitable reading the holy scriptures. | [477] |
| XXI. | Directions for reading other books. | [478] |
| XXII. | Directions for the right teaching of children and servants, so as may be most likely to have success. | [479] |
| XXIII. | Directions for prayer. | [483] |
| XXIV. | Brief directions for families, about the sacrament of the body and blood of Christ. | [493] |
| XXV. | Directions for fearful, troubled christians, that are perplexed with doubts of their sincerity and justification. | [502] |
| XXVI. | Directions for declining or backsliding christians: and about perseverance. | [505] |
| XXVII. | Directions for the poor. | [514] |
| XXVIII. | Directions for the rich. | [517] |
| XXIX. | Directions for the aged (and weak). | [519] |
| XXX. | Directions for the sick. | [522] |
| XXXI. | Directions to the friends of the sick, that are about them. | [534] |