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Author: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
Title: Unum necessarium: or, Christ's justification of Mary's choice and of his servants wrongfully accused: containing a resolution of many weighty cases of conscience. Viz. Indifferent things, obedience to the higher powers, &c. With some reflections on Popery, and a brief account of the many cruelties committed by the Papists. By Richard Baxter.
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Print source: Unum necessarium: or, Christ's justification of Mary's choice and of his servants wrongfully accused: containing a resolution of many weighty cases of conscience. Viz. Indifferent things, obedience to the higher powers, &c. With some reflections on Popery, and a brief account of the many cruelties committed by the Papists. By Richard Baxter.
Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
London: printed for J. Salusbury, at the Atlas in Cornhil, near the Royal Exchange, 1685.
URL: https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A76226.0001.001
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THE PREFACE.
THE One Thing Necessary: OR, MARY'S Choice Justified.
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Qu. But the doubt is, What are these needless sinfull things; That seemeth needless to one that is not so indeed, or to another? Cy∣nicks call Decencies, and Ornaments, and Conveniencies, and Pleasure, needless.
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Obj. 1. Some say, that it is but few Persons, at least not all, that are fitted for, and called to great employments; they that cannot do greater matters, must do lesser.
Obj. 2. I was not bred up to labour, they that were bred up to it, must use it.
Obj. 3. God doth not require toil and labour from those that are rich, and need it not.
Obj. 4. Men need Recreation and Re∣laxation.
Obj. 5. Little things are usefull in their places; Christ saith of some such, These ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Obj. 6. Old men are incompetent Judg∣es of the case of Youth, as not having their inclinations to Sports and Pleasures; and all men, especially Divines and Law∣yers, and such like grave men, who are themselves taken up with greater matters, are incompetent Judges of the affairs of Wo∣men, their Cloaths, their Furniture, their Expences and their Imployments, and are apt to call all needless, which is below their work.
Obj. 7. We shall be derided if we are singular.
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Obj. We cannot be alwaies thinking of God and Heaven.
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II. Qu. Is it lawful to be of a Trade which serveth the Humours of vain Persons; as to make Cards, or Dice, or Stage-Playes; or vain Attire, as Ribbonds, Periwigs, and such like?
Qu. 2. May a Servant dwell with and obey such a Master, or Lady, or Mistress, as will command them to spend much of their time in Trifles and Vanities, that are but to please a proud or curious Fancy?
Obj. By this you will make it a Duty to obey Papal Commands of idle Ceremonies, if we doubt, or if they he not things forbidden us.
Qu. 3. May the Husband and Master bear with sinful Vanities in his Wife and Servants, in his House? Seeing he is the Ru∣ler, is it not his Sin to tolerate them?
Obj. If you tell Women this, some will give their Husbands no Quietness, and some will waste their Estates in Sin, or vain Ex∣pences, to satisfie their Lusts.
Obj. 2. But by this you would inferr, that Evils may also be tolerated in the Church, if so far in the Family.
Qu. 4. What are to be taken for sinful needless Studies, which Scholars should a∣void?
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Obj. To justifie a good Cause is not to ustifie the Person.
Obj. This is but before men.
Obj. This is but as to a particular Cause, and not an universal Justification.
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Obj. To love God above all sinful pleasure is the fruit and ripeness of Grace, but the seed doth not reach so high.
Obj. What can the strongest Christian do more than love God above all?
Obj. Doth David, Peter, and the Dis∣ciples that all forsook Christ and fled, love him better than life at such a time.
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Obj. I can easily keep up a resolved choice of God, and Holiness and Heaven, but I cannot so constantly keep up the rejection of fleshly pleasures, and Profit and Honour, which would be for the time preferred.
Obj. But how doth a man choose God and Holiness in the hour of his Sin, when he is choosing forbidden pleasure?
Qu. What is it that is our Duty in or∣der to the unchangeableness of our own Wills and Choice?
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