A26892:1488
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.
§. 24. Direct. 3. •ead much those Scriptures which speak of the praises of God; especially the Psalms: 1and furnish your memories with store of those holy expressions of the excellencies of God, which he himself hath taught you in his Word. None knoweth the things of God, but the Spirit of God; who teacheth us in the Scriptures to speak divinely of things divine. No other dialect so well becometh the work of praise. God that best knoweth himself, doth best teach us how to know and praise him. Every Christian should have a treasury of these sacred materials in his memory, that he may be able at all times, in Conference and in Worship, to speak of God in the words of God.
§. 24. Direct. 3. •ead much those Scriptures which speak of the praises of God; especially the Psalms: 1and furnish your memories with store of those holy expressions of the excellencies of God, which he himself hath taught you in his Word. None knoweth the things of God, but the Spirit of God; who teacheth us in the Scriptures to speak divinely of things divine. No other di•l•ct so well becometh the work of praise. God that best knoweth himself, doth best teach us how to know and praise him. Every Christian should have a treasury of these sacred materials in his memory, that he may be able at all times, in Conference and in Worship, to speak of God in the words of God.
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§. 25. Direct. 4. Be much in singing Psalms of praise, and that with the most heart-raising cheerfulness 1and melody: especially in the holy assemblies. The melody and the conjunction of many serious holy souls, doth end much to elevate the heart. And where it is done intelligibly, reverently, in conjunction with a rational, spiritual, serious Worship, the use of Musical Instruments are not to be scrupled or refused, any more than the Tunes and Melody of the Vic.