130. (3.) Did Christ allow the adjuration of the high priest? Did St. Paul use expressions which contain the nature of oaths? To what species of swearing does Christ's prohibition apply? (IV.) On what does the proper force of the obligation of an oath depend? (1.) Why is perjury a more deliberate sin than simple (2.) How does it violate superior confidence? (V) When are promissory oaths not binding? CHAPTER XVII. 132. What does the witness swear? Is concealment a violation of this oath? Why? 133. Is tenderness to the prisoner an excuse for concealment ? Why not? How should the witness dispose of irrelevant or impertinent questions? CHAPTER XVIII. What is the English oath of allegiance? 134. What was it intended to ascertain? (1.) Does this oath allow the juror to support the claims of any pretender to the throne except the reigning prince? (2.) Does it allow an attempt to depose the reigning prince for any reason whatever? Illustrate this from history. (3.) Does the oath allow the taking up of arms against the reigning prince from private motives? Illustrate this. 135. (1.) Does the oath permit resistance to the king when such resistance would benefit the community? Illustrate this from history. (2.) Does the oath permit resistance to unlawful com mands? 136. (3.) Does the oath require adherence to a sovereign after he is deposed? Why not? CHAPTER XIX. What is the oath against bribery? Are evasions of this oath criminal? CHAPTER XX. 137. Why is simony so called? Is the sale of advowsons allowable? 138. What does the law adjudge to be simony? CHAPTER XXI. 139. What kinds of observances do members of the English universities swear to observe? How are unlawful directions disposed of? Impracticable directions? 140. What is the measure of the juror's duty with respect to inconvenient observances? (1. 2. 3.) What three circumstances are requisite in order to render inconveniency a valid excuse? Enunerate some of these inconvenient observances. Why should they be dispensed with ? CHAPTER XXII. 141. Why is subscription to articles of religion considered in connexion with oaths? Who imposes subscription? What absurdity follows from supposing a belief in every proposition contained in the Thirty-nine Articles is necessary to justify subscription? What did the authors of the law intend? 142. Who should not subscribe ? CHAPTER XXIII. What kind of property is absolute ? 143. Is land so? Why not? What absurdity would the absolute possession of land involve? Does history confirm this account of property? What are the good effects of extending the owner's power over his property beyond his life? How long does the English law allow entails to operate? 144. Are informal wills binding on the conscience? Why not? 145. From what does the regard due to kindred, in the disposal of fortune, arise? When is a man disengaged from the force of these reasons? 146. Why should poor relatives be provided for? When is the omission of a will culpable? How did wills first come under the cognizance of ecclesiastical courts? 147. How must succession to intestates be regulated? What is the English rule of distribution of personal estate? Is real estate so equitably disposed of? Is there no remedy? BOOK III.-PART II.-CHAPTER I. 148. How does Paley use the term charity in this connexion ? Of what is it the province? Why? What are the principal methods of promoting the happiness of our inferiors? CHAPTER II. 149. Illustrate the mode of treatment proper for dependants. Who is under the greater obligation, the rich or the dependant, such as a servant, tradesman, &c. ? Is good usage thrown away on inferiors?' 150. What does morality forbid us to do with respect to dependants? CHAPTER III. What is slavery? In what may it justly originate? 151. Is the African slave trade excused upon these principles? What crimes attend the prosecution of this traffic? How is it attempted to be justified? How may its fall be accelerated? 152. Did slavery exist when Christianity rose? Is it forbidden in the Christian Scriptures? Why not? CHAPTER IV. 153. Who should afford professional assistance? (1.) Why should the care of the poor be the principal object of all laws? How may a legislator render service to the poor in the way of his profession? (2.) A justice of the peace? 154. (3.) A physician? (4.) A lawyer? (5.) A clergyman? CHAPTER V. 155. (1.) Is the existence of such an emotion as pity an evidence of our obligation to assist the poor? 156. How is their claim proved to be founded in the law of nature? How is their claim made out from Scripture? 157. What is there remarkable in St. Paul's direction on this subject? 158. Is the community of goods, among certain of the primitive Christians, an example for imitation? How did the apostles proceed in relation to the trust thus reposed in them? (1.) What does Paley consider to be the best mode of charity? J. Illustrate this. (2.) What advantage attends charity granted by subscription? (3.) Why should beggars be relieved? What effect has such charity on the donor? 160. What are the species of charity contrived to make the money expended go far? How may the owners of large estates do good in a charitable way? 161. When should our charity be private? What species of liberality is not charity? 162. (3. 1.) What is generally meant by having nothing to spare? (3.) What is the reply of St. James to those who say that charity does not consist in giving money? (4.) Why does St. Paul omit giving to the poor in his description of charity? (5.) Why is paying poor rates no excuse? (6.) Why is the employment of the poor no excuse for the employer? 163. (7.) What answer should be made to the excuse about habit? (8.) About ingratitude? (9.) About imposition? (10.) About applying to the parishes? (11.) About encouraging idleness? (12.) About giving to strangers? CHAPTER VI. 164. How is revenge distinguished? What is anger? Revenge? CHAPTER VII. Is all anger sinful? When is anger sinful? 165. Name some of the proper sedatives of anger. 166. What is the remedy proposed by the Gospel? What is the effect of habitual self-control? CHAPTER VIII. When does retribution become revenge? 167. How may we distinguish between a disposition to do justice and a desire of revenge? Does the light of nature show the criminality of revenge? Does the authority of Scripture condemn it? Repeat some of the passages in point. 168. What is evident from these passages ? Do these passages interfere with the punishment of pub lic offenders? 169. Is the punishment of vice, by withdrawing our company and civility, lawful? Does charity require us to trust those who have defrauded us, or confer favours on those who have offended us? 170. Did Christ insist particularly on the practice of forgive ness? CHAPTER IX. Why is duelling absurd? Why does the duellist fight? 171. Define murder. What would be the consequence of allowing the law of honour to create exceptions to Divine prohibitions? Does a sense of shame justify the duellist's conduct? 172. Why does not the principle of forgiveness apply to the case? 1 Is any remedy likely to be found? Will not the law repair the injuries which occasion duels? What remedy does Paley propose for the army? CHAPTER X. 173. Is it possible to live always at peace? How are the instances in the fifth chapter of Matthew explained? What would be the effect of a rule which forbade all opposition to injury? 174. What does Christianity forbid ? When is a lawsuit consistent with Christianity? How should it be conducted? 175. How should criminal actions be conducted? "In what degree is a private person, injured by a criminal Should the stigma, which may be fixed on an informer, CHAPTER XI. 176. In what does the mischief of ingratitude consist? What reason for cultivating gratitude is drawn from religion? 177. Can gratitude oblige us to do wrong? Is conscience sometimes insincerely pleaded to get rid of obligations? CHAPTER XII. How does it appear that speaking is acting? How is slander distinguished? What is malicious slander? 178. May there exist malice in the circulation of truths? |