A26892:6876
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.
2 King 23. 2, 3. King Josiah went up into the house of the Lord, and all the men of Judah, &c. And the Priests and the Prophets, and all the people both small and great; and he read in their ears all the words ⟨p. 857⟩of the book of the Covenant, And the King stood by a pillar and made a Covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his Commandments, &c▪ with all their heart, and all their soul, &c. and all the people stood to the Covenant? Where as a King is the speaker, it's like that the people used some words to express their consent.
2 King 23. 2, 3. King Iosiah went up into the house of the Lord, and all the men of Judah, &c. And the Priests and the Prophets, and all the people both small and great; and he read in their ears all the words ⟨p. 857⟩of the book of the Covenant, And the King stood by a pillar and made a Covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his Commandments, &c▪ with all their heart, and all their soul, &c. and all the people stood to the Covenant? Where as a King is the speaker, it's like that the people used some words to express their consent.
1 Chron. 16. 35, 36. When David delivered a Psalm for a form of praise: in which it is said to the people, v. 35. [And say ye, save us O God of our salvation and gather us together, and deliver us from the Heathen that we may give thanks to thy holy name, and glory in thy praise: blessed be the Lord God of Israel for ever and ever] All the people said Amen, and praised the Lord. Where it is like that their praising the Lord was more than their Amen.