A26892:6757
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.
Quest. 74. Is it lawful to Impose Forms on the Congregation or the people in public Worship?
Quest. 74. Is it lawful to Impose Forms on the Congregation or the people in publick Worship?
Yes, and more than Lawful: It is the Pastors duty so to do. For whether he fore-think what to pray or not, his prayer is to them a form of words: And they are bound in all the lawful parts, to concur with him in Spirit or desire, and to say Amen. So that every Minister by Office is daily to impose a form of prayer on all the people in the Congregation. Only some men impose the same form many times over, or every day, and others impose every day a new one.
YEs, and more than Lawful: It is the Pastors duty so to do. For whether he fore-think what to pray or not, his prayer is to them a form of words: And they are bound in all the lawful parts, to concur with him in Spirit or desire, and to say Amen. So that every Minister by Office is daily to impose a form of prayer on all the people in the Congregation. Only some men impose the same form many times over, or every day, and others impose every day a new one.