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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.
Obj. But this is but a speech to Moses and not to God.
Answ. I will reci•e to you a form of prayer which the people themselves were to make publicly to God; Deut. 26▪ 13, 14, 15. [Then shalt thou say before the Lord thy God▪ I have brought away the 1hallowed things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite and to the stranger, to the fatherless and the Widow, according to all thy Commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy Commandments, neither have I forgotten them: I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead; but I have hearkened to the voice of the Lord my God and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me: Look down from thy holy habitation, from Heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the Land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our Fathers, a Land that floweth with milk and honey]. Is not here a full form of Prayer to be used by all the people? And remember that Joseph and Mary and Christ himself were under this Law, and that you never read that Christ found fault with the peoples speech▪ nor spake a word to restrain it in his Churches.
Answ. I will reci•e to you a form of prayer which the people themselves were to make publickly to God; Deut. 26▪ 13, 14, 15. [Then shalt thou say before the Lord thy God▪ I have brought away the 1