Ductor dubitantium, or, The rule of conscience in all her generall measures serving as a great instrument for the determination of cases of conscience : in four books / by Jeremy Taylor ...

F.

• OF Fables and fictions, whether lawfull. l. 3. c. 2. r. 5. n. 19. p. 94.

Fast.

• In the first ages of the Christian Church they kept their Fasts with liberty.
• l. 3. c. 4. r. 13. n. 15. p. 280.
• Fasts observed by the Ancients were divers. l. 3. c. 4. r. 13. n. 17. p. 281.
• Concerning the weekly Fasts, Satur∣day and Friday. ibid. n. 23. p. 284.
• The Rogation Fast and Ember-week.
• ibid. n. 23. p. 284. & ibid. r. 15. n. 11. p. 294.
• Fasting, of its necessity and abuse.
• l. 3. c. 4. r. 17. n. 18. p. 307.
• It is not to be offered to God for good works, but with them. ibid.
• The Roman Fasts superstitious.
• ibid. n. 19. p. 308.
• The niceties of the Roman Church about Fasting. l. 3. c. 4. r. 17. n. 21. p. 310.
• In what cases, and what person are tyed to the observation of Ecclesiastical Fasts. l. 3. c. 4. r. 19. n. 4. p. 317.
• The sick and weak are exempted from the Laws of Fasting. ibid. n. 5. p. 317.
• Laws of Fasting are sparingly to be impos'd. ibid. n. 7. p. 318. & 322.
• Needless scruples about fasting.
• ibid. n. 8. p. 318, 319.
• The usefulness of Fasting.
• ibid. n. 9. p. 321.
• The Canon Law forbids a fast of two or three days, or that is beyond our strength. ibid.
• Little use of the Flesh Fast.
• ibid. n. 10. p. 322.
• Fish as delicious and luxurious as flesh. ibid.
• Fasts of many days continuance ought not to be imposed severely.
• l. 3. c. 4. r. 19. n. 12. p. 322.
• Unless it be by the Civil power.
• ibid. n. 13. p. 323.
• Too much abstinence in Fasting brings sometimes madness.
• l. 3. c. 4. r. 20. n. 17. p. 336.
• Of Fasting.
• l. 2. c. 3. r. 14. n. 55. p. 505. & l. 2. c. 3. r. 8. n. 1, 2. &c. p. 417.
• Reasons proving it to be a duty.
• l. 2. c. 3. r. 8. n. 3. p. 418.
• Of the manner of its obligation dif∣ferent from other duties.
• l. 2. c. 3. r. 8. n. 6. p. 419.
• The words of S. Chrysostome concer∣ning Fasting explained.
• l. 3. c. 1. r. 1. n. 18. p. 13.
• Words of S. Basil concerning Fast∣ing explained. ibid.
• The Ecclesiastical Laws concerning Fasting do not oblige in case of sickness or the like. l. 3. c. 1. r. 2. n. 8. p. 28.
• The Primitive Church did appoint Fasting days. l. 3. c. 4. r. 4. n. 3. p. 226.
• Of the Fast of Lent and the weekly Fasting days. l. 3. c. 4. r. 13. n. 4. p. 273.
• Testimonies of the Fathers shewing that the Church had no Fasts but volun∣tary. ibid. n. 9. p. 276, 278.
• Of breaking Fasting days.
• l. 3. c. 1. r. 1. n. 18. p. 13. & ibid. n. 29. p. 20.

Faith.

• It is not lawfull to declare those things that are proved out of Scripture by pro∣bable arguments to be articles of Faith.
• l. 3. c. 4. r. 17. n. 10, 11, 12. p. 305.
• The Catholic Church in matters of Faith is a Witness, not a Judge.
• l. 3. c. 4. r. 21. n. 1. p. 356.
• Religion and Faith are not within the power of a Father.
• l. 3. c. 5. r. 4. n. 1. p. 369.
• The Jews believed God would not punish the sin of the thoughts, unless it were against the Faith.
• l. 4. c. 1. r. 5. n. 18. p. 500.
• Faith and reason are not opposite.
• l. 1. c. 2. r. 3. n. 20. p. 46.
• What Faith is. ibid.
• Faith is in other Sciences besides The∣ologie. ibid. n. 21.
• Faith it self is an act of reason.
• ibid. n. 24. p. 47.
• What, Faith infused by God, is.
• ibid. n. 25. p. 48.
• How Faith and Reason serve one a∣nother. l. 1. c. 2. r. 3. n. 52. p. 57.
• The foundation of Faith laid by Christ and his Apostles is plain and ea∣sie and hath but a few articles.
• l. 2. c. 3. r. 14. n. 64. p. 509.
• The Symbols of Faith in the New Testament are short.
• l. 2. c. 3. r. 14. n. 65. p. 510.
• The Apostles baptiz'd Proselytes up∣on the confession of a very few Articles.
• ibid. n. 66. p. 511.
• Justin Martyr affirms, that if any man should even then (in his times) live ac∣cording to the Law of Moses, so that he believes in Jesus Christ crucified, he shall be saved. ibid. n. 67. p. 512.
• The Primitive Father required the beliefe of a few Articles.
• l. 2. c. 3. r. 14. n. 67, 68. p. 512.
• It was the sense of the first ages, that the Creeds should not be enlarged.
• ibid. n. 69. p. 513.
• The Ancient Church in the Creed of Constantinople and Nice added only new explications, no new Articles.
• ibid. n. 73. p. 515.
• Every Conclusion drawn from a be∣lieved truth is certain but not necessary.
• ibid. n. 74. p. 515.
• Many things are necessary to be be∣lieved upon the account of obedience more then upon the account of Faith.
• ibid. n. 76. p. 516.
• About matters of Faith no mans Conscience ought to be pressed with any authority, but of Christ enjoyning or the Apostles declaring what is necessary.
• ibid. n. 83. p. 518.
• Faith is to be kept even with an Ene∣my. l. 3. c. 2. r. 5. n. 19. p. 94.
• but not if the person engaging had not competent power. ibid. n. 19. p. 95.
• decrees made by the Emperours concer∣ning matters of Faith.
• l. 3. c. 3. r. 7. n. 14. p. 206.

Father.

• Children ought to obey their Parents or Fathers. l. 3. c. 5. r. 1. n. 1. p. 359.
• three reasons to enforce the Duty.
• ibid. n. 1, 2, 3. p. 359, 360.
• If a Father and Son being partners in a Crime be to endure torment to for•••• confession, the Law commands the Son to be tormented first.
• l. 3. c. 5. r. 1. n. 2. p. 360.
• Fathers are to us in the place of God.
• ibid. n. 1. p. 359.
• ...

• Fathers bless their children.
• l. 3. c. 5. r. 1. n. 3. p. 360.
• The Curses of Fathers are Omi∣nous. ibid. n. 3. p. 361.
• A Fable teaching children to obey their Fathers commands. l. 3. c. 5. r. 1. n. 4. p. 361.
• It is a sin for Children to reject the Counsels or holy precepts which their Fathers give them. ibid. n. 7. p. 362.
• The power of Fathers over their children. l. 3. c. 5. r. 2. n. 1. p. 364.
• An instrument of political peace. ib.
• The Fathers power the fountain of the Royal. ibid.
• The Judge is authoriz'd in the Law of Moses to punish with death crimes committed against the private authority of a Fathers upon his single testimony.
• ibid. n. 2. p. 364.
• A Father Anger must be such as must have Discipline for his end, not revenge.
• ibid. n. 3. p. 365.
• Against a Fathers tyranny there is no remedy but in the civil power. ibid. n. 3.
• A Father must use moderation in chastising. ibid.
• Children must maintain their Pa∣rents and Fathers. l. 3. c. 5. r. 3. n. 1. p. 366.
• Maintenance is a part of that ho∣nour that is due to Fathers. ib. n. 2. p. 367.
• A Son is bound to maintain his in∣digent Father, though the Father be outlaw'd. ibid.
• The indigent Father is to be relieved rather then the Son. ibid. n. 3. p. 367.
• The Civil law permits the Father to sell his Son for his necessary support.
• l. 3. c. 5. r. 3. n. 4. p. 368.
• And if a Son deny it, the Law ties the Son to maintain his Father during the suit. ibid. n. 5. p. 368.
• Religion and Faith are not within the Fathers power. ibid. r. 4. n. 1. p. 369.
• A child is not to be baptiz'd without his Fathers leave. ibid.
• The religion of the Son must not prejudice the Fathers civil rights. ib. n. 2.
• A Father hath no authority after his death. l. 3. c. 5. r. 6. n. 1. p. 372.
• When their Fathers are dead the Sons owe much to the memory of them.
• l. 3. c. 5. r. 6. n. 2. p. 372.
• What regard we should have to our dead Fathers. ibid. n. 3. p. 373.
• The Argument in A. Gellius, that proves we ought not to obey the com∣mand of our Fathers, answered.
• l. 3. c. 5. r. 7. n. 2. p. 374.
• A Son is not to obey his Father in things impious. ibid. n. 3. p. 375.
• though the Fathers command may be neglected, his authority must not.
• ibid. n. 4. p. 375.
• if the Son transgress the Law by his Fathers command, his punishment is the more easie. ibid. n. 5.
• Velle non creditur, qui obscquitur im∣perio Patris aut Domini. ibid.
• The Authority of Fathers over their children proved, with the measures there∣of. l. 3. c. 5. r. 7. n. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. p. 375, & 376.
• In what case the Son may complain of his Father to the Judge. ib. n. 7. p. 376.
• It is not lawfull for Sons to enter into a state of religion against their Fathers will. ibid. r. 8. n. 3. p. 378.
• Thomas Aquinas did. ibid.
• A Son cannot withdraw himself from under his Fathers Government, and put himself under another. ibid. n. 5. p. 379.
• it is forbid by the Council of Gan∣gra. ibid.
• S. Augustine and S. Ambrose affirm that a Father cannot hinder his Son from going into a Monastery; but then it was not a perpetual bond, but only as a School for Education. ibid. n. 6. p. 379.
• Instances shewing that Sons may not enter into a religious Order without their Fathers leave. ibid. n. 6. p. 380.
• Charles the Great made a Law against it. ibid.
• Children sin, that marry against their Fathers will. l. 3. c. 5. r. 8. n. 7. p. 381.
• the Ancients judged such marriages illegitimate. ibid. n. 8. p. 381.
• the Law of Nature requires Sons to aske their Fathers leave in marriage.
• ibid. n. 9. p. 382.
• Marriage made against the will of the Father were invalid by the civil Law. ib.
• The Church sometime did excom∣municate those that married without the consent of their Fathers or Parents.
• ibid. n. 11. p. 384.
• The consent of Fathers or Parents is not essentially necessary to the validity of marriage. l. 3. c. 5. r. 8. n. 14. p. 385.
• though the consent of the Father or Parents being wanting cannot invalidate the contract, yet it may hinder the pos∣session. ibid. n. 16. p. 387.
• The Fathers natural power over the Son. ibid. n. 17. p. 388. His political power. ibid. n. 18. p. 389.
• this later every Commonwealth hath power to extend or streighten.
• ibid. n. 19. p. 389.
• Of Exemption from the power of Fa∣thers. ibid. n. 20. p. 390.
• A Son is never exempted from his Fathers natural power. ibid. Of his po∣litical power the Laws determine the measure and period. ibid.
• The Sons wife is in the Fathers pow∣er after marriage. ibid. n. 21. p. 390.
• If a Son be a Magistrate, the Magi∣strate is exempted from the Fathers pow∣er, but not the Son. ibid. n. 22. p. 391.
• If a Son enter into holy orders, it quits him not from his duty to his Fa∣ther. ibid. n. 23. p. 391.
• A Father cannot hinder the marriage of his children, if they are far gone in love, and he at first promoted it.
• ibid. n. 27. p. 392.
• The Civil law puts not Sons under their Mother but their Father.
• ibid. n. 28. p. 393.
• Some cases in which a Father ought not to force his children to marry.
• ibid. n. 33, 34. p. 396.
• A man is bound to the duty of main∣taining his Father, though he have made a vow of his estate to the Church.
• l. 3. c. 6. r. 3. n. 14. p. 415.
• Those that doe to us all the duties of Fathers we are bound to as our Fathers.
• ibid. n. 24. p. 419.
• the power that Fathers have over their children, and the reasons of it.
• l. 2. c. 2. r. 6. n. 65. p. 367.
• The power of Fathers in inflicting punishments. l. 3. c. 2. r. 6. n. 7. p. 109.
• The fifth Commandment of honou∣ring our Father and Mother the Jews accounted to the first table.
• l. 2. c. 2. r. 6. n. 8. p. 329.

Fathers of the Church.

• Of the authority of those Books that were written by the ancient Fathers.
• l. 3. c. 4. r. 22. n. 4, 5. p. 355.
• concerning their judgment in contro∣versies. l. 1. c. 4. r. 10. n. 1. p. 162.
• they cannot give sufficient authority to a tradition. l. 2. c. 3. r. 14. n. 42. p. 499.
• the Primitive Fathers required the be∣lief of a few articles.
• l. 2. c. 3. r. 14. n. 67, 68. p. 512.

Fear.

• What influence Fear hath upon the morality of our actions.
• l. 4. c. 1. r. 7. p. 511.
• In Divine Commandments no fear of temporal evil is an excuse.
• l. 4. c. 1. r. 7. n. 2. p. 512.
• what influence Fear hath upon con∣tracts, marriages, &c. ibid. n. 7. p. 514.
• The Law calls nothing a just fear, but the fear of the greatest evils, as death, &c. ibid. n. 8. p. 514.
• Whether I am bound to keep my pro∣mise, which I make, fearing to lose my life if I deny. ibid. n. 9. p. 515.
• No reverential Fear can excuse a sin or nullifie a contract. ib. n. 10. p. 515.
• why Fear hath upon our actions a dif∣ferent influence from other passions, as lust, anger, &c. ibid.
• Fear is the band of all laws.
• l. 2. c. 1. r. 3. n. 1. p. 244.
• even in good men Fear is the instru∣ment of justice. ibid. n. 6. p. 246.
• Fear the attendant of a guilty con∣science. l. 1. c. 1. r. 2. n. 14. p. 19.
• another Fear there is alwaies joyned with true peace of Conscience.
• ibid. n. 25. p. 25.
• It is lawfull to perswade fools and children by Mormo's instead of argu∣ments. l. 1. c. 2. r. 6. n. 19. p. 80.
• Fear abuses the Conscience into er∣rour. l. 1. c. 3. r. 1. n. 4. p. 100.
• Of the Fears of a scrupulous Con∣science. l. 1. c. 6. r. 5. n. 9. p. 216.

Feasts.

• The Apostles made no laws concer∣ning Feasts, saith Socrates.
• l. 3. c. 4. r. 13. n. 13. p. 279.
• of Feasting, and its luxury and due measures. l. 4. c. 1. r. 2. n. 21. p. 465.
• Of those that permit Drunkenness in their houses at Feasts. ibid.
• Among the Romans works of neces∣sity and charity were permitted on Festivals. l. 2. c. 2. r. 6. n. 57. p. 363.

Fornication.

• the congress of betrothed persons is not Fornication before God.
• l. 3. c. 5. r. 8. n. 16. p. 387.
• Of those Commonwealths that permit fornication and publick stews.
• l. 1. c. 5. r. 8. n. 17. p. 195.
• Fines mandati sunt diligenter custo∣diendi. l. 4. c. 2. r. 3. n. 4.

Free-will, and Freedome.

• Of Free-will. l. 4. c. 1. r. 1. p. 438, 439. & 447, 448.
• It is consequent to the weakness and blindness of our nature.
• l. 4. c 1. r. 1. n. 5. p. 441.
• to grant Frr-will does not disparage the grace of God. ibid. n. 6. p. 441.
• to have a power of chusing evil is an imperfection and inselicity.
• ibid. n. 5. p. 441.
• wherein consists that freedome which the death of Christ hath put us into.
• l. 3. c. 1. r. 1. n. 28. p. 18.
• The Fifth Commandment of honou∣ring our Father and Mother, the Jews accounted to the first table.
• l. 2. c. 2. r. 6. p. 8. p. 329.
• What influence Fraud has upon con∣tracts. l. 4. c. 1. r. 6. n. 22. p. 510.
• The precepts of Forgiveness and charity are not against executing penal Laws. l. 3. c. 2. r. 1. n. 3. p. 54.
• It is lawfull to perswade Fooles and children by Mormo's instead of argu∣ments. l. 1. c. 2. r. 6. n. 19. p. 80.