Directions against Scandal taken, or an aptness to receive hurt by the words or deeds of others: especially quarrelling Tit. 1. Motives to Holy Conference and Exhortation Tit. 1. Directions against all Theft, Fraud, or injurious get- ting, keeping, or desiring that which is another's..... Tit. 2. Cases of Conscience about Theft and such injuries.. Q. 1. Is it sin to steal to save one's life? ..... Q. 4. May I recover my own by force from him that taketh Q. 5. May we take it from the rich to relieve the poor?.... Q. 6. If he have so much as that he will not miss it, may I Q. 7. May not one pluck ears of corn, or an apple from a .... Q. 8. May a wife, child, or servant take more than a cruel .... ibid. ibid. ibid. Q. 10. What if I resolve, when I take a thing in necessity, ibid. .... ibid. Q. 14. May I take away cards, dice, play-books, Papist books, ibid. Q. 16. May I take from another for a holy use? ibid. Q. 1. Must I in all cases do as I would be done by?........ Q. 2. Is a son bound by the Contracts which parents or guar- PAGE Q. 3. If parents disagree, how is the child to act?... Q. 4. Is one obliged by a Contract made in ignorance or mis- ibid. Q. 7. Am I obliged by covenanting words without a cove- .... Q. 8. May I promise a robber money to save my life, or to save a greater commodity? ..... Q. 9. May I give money to a judge or magistrate, to hire him Q. 10. If I make such a Contract may the magistrate take it ... ibid. Q. 11. If I promise money to an officer or robber under a Q. 14. Is it a covenant when neither of the contracting parties ibid. Q. 16. If I say 'I will give one this or that,' am I bound to ibid. Q. 17. Doth a mental promise not uttered oblige? Q. 18. May I promise to do a thing simply unlawful, without a purpose to perform it, to save my life? PAGE Q. 34. Or if a following accident make the performance a sin? Q. 3. May I ask more in the market than the worth? Q. 4. How shall the worth of a commodity be judged of? Q. 5. May I conceal the faults, or make a thing seem better than it is, by setting the best side outward, adorning, &c. 308 Q. 6. If I was deceived, or gave more than the worth, may I Q. 7. If I foresee a cheapness of my commodity, (as by com- ing in of ships, &c.) must I tell the buyer of it that know- Q. 9. May one use many words in buying and selling? Q. 10. May I buy as cheap as I can, or below the worth? . . ibid. Q. 11. May I sell dearer for another's necessity? (cases in- Q. 12. May I take advantage of the buyer's ignorance? . . Q. 17. What if the buyer lose the thing bought before pay- ibid. Q. 18. If the thing bought, (as ambergris, jewels, &c.) prove Q. 19. What if the title prove bad, which was before un- Q. 20. If a change of powers overthrow a title speedily, who Q. 1. May one borrow money who seeth no probability that Q. 2. May one drive a trade with borrowed money, when success and repayment are uncertain? . . . Q. 3. May he that cannot pay his debts, retain any thing for Q. 4. May one that breaketh, secure that to his wife and children, which on marriage he promised, before he was in Q. 8. May one that hath no probability of paying the last man, borrow of one to pay another? Q. 10. May a forfeiture, pledge, or mortgage be kept, on ibid. |