A26892:6871
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
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7. Those that would have private men pray and prophesy in public, as warranted by 1 Cor. 14. [Ye may all speak, &c.] do much contradict themselves, if they say also that▪ Lay man may say nothing but Amen.
7. Those that would have private men pray and prophesie in publick, as warranted by 1 Cor. 14. [Ye may all speak, &c.] do much contradict themselves, if they say also that▪ Lay man may say nothing but Amen.
8. The people were all to say Amen in Deut. 27. 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, &c. And yet they oftentimes said more. As Exod. 19. 8. in as solemn an Assembly as any of ours, when God himself gave Moses a Sermon (in a form of words) to Preach to the people, and Moses had repeated it as from the Lord (it being the Narrative of his mercies, the command of obedience, and the promises of his great blessings upon that condition,) all the people answered together and said, All that the Lord hath spoken we will do. The like was done again, Exod. 24. 3. And Deut. 5. 27. And lest you should think either that the Assembly was not as solemn as ours, or that it was not well done of the people to say more than Amen, God himself who was present declared his approbation, even of the words when the speakers hearts were not so sincere in speaking them as they ought: vers. 28, 29. [And the Lord heard the voice of your words when you spake unto me, and the Lord said unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people—They have well said all that they have spoken. O that there were such a heart in them—