A26892:1475
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.
Part 1 › Chapter 3 › Direction 15 › Directions for Glorifying God with our tongues, in his Praises.
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.
§. 14. 1. It is the giving to God his chiefest due: A speaking of him as he is: And when we have1 spoken the highest, how far fall we short, of the due expression of his glorious perfections. O how great Praise doth that Almightiness deserve, which created and conserveth all the world, and overruleth all the sons of men, and is able to do whatsoever he will? Great is the Lord and Greatly to be praised: and his Greatness is unsearchable. One Generation shall praise his works to another and declare his mighty acts: I will speak of the glorious honour of thy Majesty, and of thy wondrous works: And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts, and I will declare thy Greatness, Psalm 145. 3, 4, 5. What Praise doth that knowledge deserve which extendeth to all things that are, or were, or ever shall be? and that wisdom which ordereth all the world? He knoweth every thought of man, and all the secrets of the heart. Psalm 44. 21. & 94. 11. Known unto God are all his works, from the beginning of the world; Acts 15. 18. His understanding is infinite Psalm 147. 5. What praise doth that Goodness and Mercy deserve, which is diffused throughout all the world, and is the life and hope and happiness of men and Angels? His Mercy is Great unto the Heavens, and his Truth unto the Clouds: Psalm 57. 10. O how great is his Goodness to them that fear him? Psalm. 31. 10. and therefore how great should be his Praise. Who can utter the mighty acts of the Lord? and who can show forth all his Praise, Psalm 106. 2. For great is the Glory of the Lord, Psalm 138. 5.