A Christian Directory, Part 2: Christian Economics
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Baxter Richard. A Christian Directory, Part 2: Christian Economics
CHAPTER I. DIRECTIONS ABOUT MARRIAGE; FOR CHOICE AND CONTRACT
CHAPTER II. DIRECTIONS FOR THE RIGHT CHOICE OF SERVANTS AND 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
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
CHAPTER VIII. THE SPECIAL DUTIES OF HUSBANDS TO THEIR WIVES
CHAPTER IX. THE SPECIAL DUTIES OF WIVES TO HUSBANDS
CHAPTER X. THE DUTIES OF PARENTS FOR THEIR CHILDREN
CHAPTER XI. THE SPECIAL DUTIES OF CHILDREN TOWARDS THEIR PARENTS
CHAPTER XII. THE SPECIAL DUTIES OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH TOWARDS GOD
CHAPTER XIII. THE DUTIES OF SERVANTS TO THEIR MASTERS
CHAPTER XIV. THE DUTIES OF MASTERS TOWARDS THEIR SERVANTS
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
CHAPTER XVIII. DIRECTIONS FOR THE ORDER OF HOLY DUTIES
CHAPTER XIX. DIRECTIONS FOR PROFITABLE HEARING THE WORD PREACHED
CHAPTER XX. DIRECTIONS FOR PROFITABLE READING THE HOLY SCRIPTURES
CHAPTER XXI. DIRECTIONS FOR READING OTHER BOOKS
CHAPTER XXII. DIRECTIONS FOR THE RIGHT TEACHING OF CHILDREN AND SERVANTS, SO AS MAY BE MOST LIKELY TO HAVE SUCCESS
CHAPTER XXIII. DIRECTIONS FOR PRAYER
CHAPTER XXIV. BRIEF DIRECTIONS FOR FAMILIES, ABOUT THE SACRAMENT OF THE BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST
CHAPTER XXV. DIRECTIONS FOR FEARFUL, TROUBLED CHRISTIANS, THAT ARE PERPLEXED WITH DOUBTS OF THEIR SINCERITY AND JUSTIFICATION
CHAPTER XXVI. DIRECTIONS FOR DECLINING OR BACKSLIDING CHRISTIANS: AND ABOUT PERSEVERANCE
CHAPTER XXVII. DIRECTIONS FOR THE POOR
CHAPTER XXVIII. DIRECTIONS FOR THE RICH
CHAPTER XXIX. DIRECTIONS FOR THE AGED (AND WEAK)
CHAPTER XXX. DIRECTIONS FOR THE SICK
CHAPTER XXXI. DIRECTIONS TO THE FRIENDS OF THE SICK, THAT ARE ABOUT THEM
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Servants being integral parts of the family, who contribute much to the holiness or unholiness of it, and to the happiness or misery of it, it much concerneth masters to be careful in their choice. And the harder it is to find such as are indeed desirable, the more careful and diligent in it should you be.
Direct. I. To bid you choose such as are fittest for your service, is a direction which nature and interest will give you, without any persuasions of mine. And indeed it is not mere honesty or piety that will make a good servant, nor do your work. Three things are necessary to make a servant fit for you: 1. Strength. 2. Skill. 3. Willingness. And no two of these will serve without the third. Strength and skill without willingness, will do nothing: skill and willingness without strength, can do nothing: strength and willingness without skill, will do as bad or worse than nothing. No less than all will make you a good servant. Therefore choose one, 1. That is healthful. 2. That hath been used to such work as you must employ him in: and, 3. One that is not of a flesh-pleasing, or lazy, sluggish disposition. For to exact labour from one that is sickly will seem cruelty; and to expect labour from one that is unskilful and unexercised will seem folly; and heavy, fleshly, slothful persons, will do all with so much unwillingness, and pain, and weariness, that they will think all too much, and their service will be a continual toil and displeasure to them, and they will think you wrong them, or deal hardly with them, if you will not allow them in their fleshliness and idleness. Yea, though they should have grace, a phlegmatic, sluggish, heavy body, will never be fit for diligent service, any more than a tired horse for travel.
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Arg. II. If there be many blessings which the family needeth, and which they do actually receive from God, then it is the will of God that the family pray for these blessings when they need them, and give thanks for them when they have received them: but there are many blessings which the family (as conjunct) needeth and receiveth of God. Therefore the family conjunct, and not only particular members secretly, should pray for them and give thanks for them.
The antecedent is past question; 1. The continuance of the family as such in being. 2. In well being. 3. And so the preservation and direction of the essential members. 4. And the prospering of all family affairs are evident instances: and to descend to mere particulars would be needless tediousness. The consequence is proved from many scriptures, which require those that want mercies to ask them, and those that have received them to be thankful for them. Object. So they may do singly. Answ. It is not only as single persons, but as a society, that they receive the mercy; therefore not only as single persons, but as a society, should they pray and give thanks: therefore should they do it in that manner, as may be most fit for a society to do it in, and that is, together conjunctly, that it may be indeed a family sacrifice, and that each part may see that the rest join with them. And especially that the ruler may be satisfied in this, to whom the oversight of the rest is committed: to see that they all join in prayer, which in secret he cannot see, it being not fit that secret prayer should have spectators or witness, that is, should not be secret. But this I intended to make another argument by itself; which because we are fallen on it, I will add next.
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