A26892:6792
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. 78. Whether are set Forms of Words, or free praying without them the better way? And what are the Commodities and Incommodities of each way?
Answ. I Will first answer the later question, because the former dependeth on it.
I. The Commodities of a set form of words, and the discommodities of free-praying are these following.
1. In a time of dangerous Heresy which hath infected the Pastors, a set form of prescribed words tendeth to keep the Church, and the consciences of the joiners from such infection, offence and guilt.
1. In a time of dangerous Heresie which hath infected the Pastors, a set form of prescribed words tendeth to keep the Church, and the consciences of the joyners from such infection, offence and guilt.