PAGE Q. 5. Is it meet to love a friend for our own commodity ? Must I or my friend be the chief end of my love or friendship? 457 Q. 6. May we keep any secret from such a friend? or have any suspicion of him, or suppose that he may prove unfaithful? 458 Q. 7. May we change an old bosom friend for a new one? Q. 8. What love is due to a minister that hath been the Q.9. What is the sin and danger of loving another too much? Q. 10. What must be the qualifications of a bosom friend? .. Twenty things necessary to such a Friendship; so rare as ..... ibid. Tit. 1. Q. 1. Whom must I account and love as an enemy? Q. 2. Why and how must an enemy be loved? Q. 3. Must I desire God to forgive him while he repenteth not? Q. 4. What if he be my enemy for religion, and so an enemy ibid. Q.5. What if my benefits enable and embolden him to do hurt? ibid. Cases and Directions about Works of Charity Tit. 1. Cases of Conscience about Works of Charity Q. 1. What are the grounds and motives of good works ? · PAGE Q. 3. What particular good works should one choose at this Q. 5. Is it better to give in lifetime or at death? Q. 6. and 7. Must we devote a certain proportion of our in- Tit. 1. Cases about Confessing Sins and Injuries to others.. ibid. Q. 1. When must we confess wrongs to those that we have Q. 2. What will excuse us from such confessions? Q. 3. Must I confess a purpose of injury which was never ex- ibid. Q. 4. When must sins against God be confessed to men? Cases and Directions about Satisfaction and Restitution.... Tit. 1. Cases of Conscience about Satisfaction and Restitution ibid. Q. 1. What is satisfaction, what restitution, and when a duty? Q. 6. How must satisfaction be made for slanders and lies?.. Q. 9. Is a murderer bound to offer himself to justice? Q. 10. Or to do execution on himself? Q. 11. What satisfaction is to be made by a fornicator or ....... PAGE ibid. ibid. Q. 13. What if restitution will cost the restorer more than Q. 14. What if confessing a fault will turn the rage of the Cases and Directions about our obtaining pardon from God 519 Tit. 1. Cases of Conscience about obtaining pardon from God ibid. Q. 1. Is there pardon to be had for all sin without exception? ibid. Q. 2. What if one oft commit the same heinous sin? Q. 3. Is the day of grace and pardon ever past in this life? Q. 4. May we be sure that we are pardoned? Q. 5. Can any man pardon sin against God, and how far?.. ibid. Q. 7. Are the elect pardoned and justified before repentance ? Q. 8. Is pardon or justification perfect before death? Q. 9. Is our pardon perfect as to all sins past? Q. 10. May pardon or justification be lost or reversed? Q.11. Is the pardon of my own sin to be believed 'fide Divi- Q. 12. May one in any kind trust to his own faith and repen- ..... .... PAGE Q. 2. What should ignorant persons do whose capacity will not reach to so high a work as true self-examination and Q. 3. How far may a weak Christian take the judgment of his ...... A CHRISTIAN DIRECTORY. PART IV. CHRISTIAN POLITICS: OR, ALL THE DUTIES OF THE SIX LAST COMMANDMENTS, IN OUR POLITICAL RELATIONS, AND TOWARDS OUR NEIGHBOURS, WITH THE PRINCIPAL CASES OF CONSCIENCE ABOUT THEM. READER, THINK not by the title of this part, that I am doing the same work which I lately revoked in my " Political Aphorisms;" though I concluded that book to be' quasi non scriptum,' I told you I recanted not the doctrine of it, which is for the empire of God, and the interest of government, order, and honesty in the world. This is no place to give you the reasons of my revocation, besides that it offended my superiors, and exercised the tongues of some in places where other matters would be more profitable: pass by all that concerneth our particular state and times, and you may know by that what principles of policy I judge divine. And experience teacheth me, that it is best for men of my profession, to meddle with no more, but leave it to the Contzeu's, the Arnisæus's, and other Jesuits, to promote their cause by voluminous politics. The pope's false-named church is a kingdom, and his ministers may write of politics more congruously, and (it seems) with less offence than we. Saith the "Geographia Nubiensis" aptly, "There is a certain king |