A26892:6805
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.
10. And they can more readily put in their consent to what is spoken, and make the prayers their own, when they know before hand what it is, than they can do, when they know not before they hear it; It being hard to the duller sort of hearers, to concur with an Understanding and Consent as quick, as the speakers words are. Not but that this may be done, but not without great difficulty in the duller sort.
11. And it tendeth to avoid the pride and self-deceit of many, who think they are good Christians, and have the Spirit of Grace and Supplication, because by learning and use they can speak many hours in variety of expressions in prayer; which is a dangerous mistake.
II. The Commodities of Free extemporate prayers, and the discommodity of prescribed or set forms are these following.
1. It becometh an advantage to some Proud men who think themselves wiser than all the rest, to obtrude their Compositions, that none may be thought wise enough, or fit to speak to God but in their words: And so introduce Church-tyranny.
1. It becometh an advantage to some Proud men who think themselves wiser than all the rest, to obtude their Compositions, that none may be thought wise enough, or fit to speak to God but in their words: And so introduce Church-tyranny.