A26892:6878
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.
And it is a command Psal. 67. 3, 5. Let all the people praise thee O God, let all the people praise thee: And he that will limit this to single persons, or say that it must not be Vocally in the Church, or it must be only in metre and never in prose, or only in tunes and not without, must prove it, lest he be proved an adder to Gods word.
But it would be tedious to recite all the repeated sentences in the Psalms, which are commonly supposed to be the Responses of the people, or repeated by them. And in Rev. 14. 2, 3. the voice as of many waters and as of a great thunder, and the voice of Harpers harping with their harps, who sung a new song before the Throne, and before the four beasts and the elders, a song which no•e could learn but the hundred forty and four thousand which were redeemed from the Earth, which were not defiled with women, who were Virgins and followed the Lamb, &c. doth seem very plainly to be spoken of the praises of all the Saints. Chap. 17. 15. by waters is meant people, multitudes, &c. And Chap. 1•. 5, 6, 7, 8. there is expressly recited a form of praise for all the people, [A voice came out of the Throne saying, Praise our God all ye his servants, and ye that fear him both small and great. And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many wa••rs, and as the voice of mighty thunderings saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. Let us be glad and rejoice and give honour to him; for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made her self ready; and to her was granted, &c.]
But it would be tedious to recite all the repeated sentences in the Psalms, which are commonly supposed to be the Responses of the people, or repeated by them. And in Rev. 14. 2, 3