A26892:6785
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. 77. Is it lawful to Pray in the Church without a prescribed or premeditated form of Words?
Answ. There are so few sober and serious Christians that ever made a doubt of this, that I will not bestow many words to prove it.
Answ. THere are so few sober and serious Christians that ever made a doubt of this, that I will not bestow many words to prove it.
1. That which is not forbidden is lawful. But Church-prayer without a premeditated or prescribed form of words is not forbidden (by God) Therefore (as to Gods Laws) it is not unlawful.
2. To express holy desires understandingly, orderly, seriously and in apt expressions, is lawful praying. But all this may be done without a set form of words; Therefore to pray without a set form of words may be lawful.
2. To express holy desires understandingly, orderly, seriously and in apt expressions, is lawfull praying. But all this may be done without a set form of words; Therefore to pray without a set form of words may be lawful.