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A Christian Directory
A Christian directory, or, A sum of practical theology and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortify every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.A Christian directory, or, A summ of practical theologie and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortifie every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1673
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Are forms of prayer or Preaching in the Church Lawful? ibid. Q. 73. Are public forms of mans devising or composing Lawful? ibid. Q. 74. Is it lawful to Impose forms on the Congregation or the people in public Worship? p. 848 Q. 75. Is it Lawful to use forms composed by man and imposed not only on the people, but on the Pastors of the Churches? ibid. Q. 76. Doth not the calling of a Minister so consist in the exercise of his own ministerial gifts, that he may not officiate without them, nor make use of other mens gifts instead of them? p. 849 Q. Is it lawful to read a Prayer in the Church? p. 850 Q. 77. Is it Lawful to Pray in the Church without a prescribed or premeditated form of words? ibid. Q. 78. Whether are set forms of words, or free praying without them the better way; and what are the Commodities, and Incommodities of each way? p. 851 Q. 79. Is it Lawful to forbear the Preaching of some truths, upon mans prohibition that I may have liberty to Preach the rest? yea and to promise to forbear them, or to do it for the Churches peace? p. 853 Q. 80. May or must a Minister silenced, or forbid to Preach the Gospel, go on still to Preach it against the Law? p. 854 Q. 81. May we lawfully keep the Lords day as a fast? p. 855 Q. 82. How should the Lords day be spent in the main? ibid. Q. 83. May the people bear a vocal part in Worship, or do any more than say, Amen. p. 856 Q. 84. Is it not a sin for our Clerks to make themselves the mouth of the people, who are not ordained Ministers of Christ? p. 857 Q. 85. Are repetitions of the same words in Churchpra•ers, lawful? p. 858 Q. 86. Is it lawful to bow at the name of Jesus? ibid. Q. 87. Is it Lawful to stand up at the Gospel as we are appointed? ibid. Q. 88. Is it lawful to kneel when the Decalogue is read? p. 859 Q 89. What Gestures are fittest in all the public Worship? ibid. Q. 90. What if the Pastor and Church cannot agree, about singing Psalms, or what Version or Translation to use, or time or place of meeting, &c. ibid. Q. 91. What if the Pastor excommunicate a man, and the people will not forbear his Communion, as thinking him unjustly excommunicated? p. 860 Q. 92. May a whole Church, or the greater part be excommunicated? ibid. Q. 93. What if a Church have two Pastors, and one excommunicate a man and the other absolve him, what shall the Church and the Dissenter do? p. 861 Q. 94.
Are formes of prayer or Preaching in the Church Lawful? ibid. Q. 73. Are publick forms of mans devising or composing Lawful? ibid. Q. 74. Is it lawful to Impose forms on the Congregation or the people in publick Worship? p. 848 Q. 75. Is it Lawful to use forms composed by man and imposed not only on the people, but on the Pastors of the Churches? ibid. Q. 76. Doth not the calling of a Minister so consist in the exercise of his own ministerial gifts, that he may not officiate without them, nor make use of other mens gifts instead of them? p. 849 Q. Is it lawful to read a Prayer in the Church? p. 850 Q. 77. Is it Lawful to Pray in the Church without a prescribed or premeditated form of words? ibid. Q. 78. Whether are set forms of words, or free praying without them the better way; and what are the Commodities, and Incommodities of each way? p. 851 Q. 79. Is it Lawful to forbear the Preaching of some truths, upon mans prohibition that I may have liberty to Preach the rest? yea and to promise to forbear them, or to do it for the Churches peace? p. 853 Q. 80. May or must a Minister silenced, or forbid to Preach the Gspel, go on still to Preach it against the Law? p. 854 Q. 81. May we lawfully keep the Lords day as a fast? p. 855 Q. 82. How should the Lords day be spent in the main? ibid. Q. 83. May the people bear a vocal part in Worship, or do any more than say, Amen. p. 856 Q. 84. Is it not a sin for our Clerks to make themselves the mouth of the people, who are not ordained Ministers of Christ? p. 857 Q. 85. Are repetitions of the same words in Churchpraers, lawful? p. 858 Q. 86. Is it lawful to bow at the name of Iesus? ibid. Q. 87. Is it Lawful to stand up at the Gospel as we are appointed? ibid. Q. 88. Is it lawful to kneel when the Dealogue is read? p. 859 Q 89. What Gestures are fittest in all the publick Worship? ibid. Q. 90. What if the Pastor and Church cannot agree, about singing Psalms, or what Version or Translation to use, or time or place of meeting, &c. ibid. Q. 91. What if the Pastor excommunicate a man, and the people will not forbear his Communion, as thinking him unjustly excommunicated? p. 860 Q. 92. May a whole Church, or the greater part be excommunicated? ibid. Q. 93. What if a Church have two Pastors, and one excommunicate a man and the other absolve him, what shall the Church and the Dissenter do? p. 861 Q. 94.