A26892:6742
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 3 › Question 71: Quest. 71. Whether a Form of Prayer be lawful?
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.
I. Because the Scripture it self hath many forms of prayer; which therefore cannot be unlawful.
Object. They were lawful then, but not now.
Answ. He that saith so, must prove where God hath since forbidden them. Which can never be.
Object. They may lawfully be read in Scripture for instruction, but not used as prayers.
Answ. They were used as prayers then, and are never since forbidden: Yea, John and Christ did teach their Disciples to pray, and Christ thus prefaceth his form, When ye pray, say—
Answ. They were used as prayers then, and are never since forbidden: Yea, Iohn and Christ did teach their Disciples to pray, and Christ thus prefaceth his form, When ye pray, say—