A26892:6883
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.
Part 3 › Question 85: Quest. 85. Are repetitions of the same words in Church-prayers, lawful?
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.
Quest. 85. Are repetitions of the same words in Church-prayers, lawful?
Answ. 1. IT is not lawful to affect them as the Heathens. who think they shall be heard for their1 Battology, or saying over the same words, as if God were moved by them as by a charm.
Answ. 1. IT is not lawful to affect them as the Heathens. who think they shall be heard for their1 Battologie, or saying over the same words, as if God were moved by them as by a charm.
- 1Ma•. 6. 18.
2. Nor is it lawful to do that which hath a strong appearance of such a conceit, and thereby to make Gods worship ridiculous and contemptible: As the Papists in their Psalters, and Prayer Books repeating over the name of Jesus and Mary so oft together as maketh it seem a ludicrous Canting.
2. Nor is it lawful to do that which hath a strong appearance of such a conceit, and thereby to make Gods worship ridiculous and contemptible: As the Papists in their Psalters, and Prayer Books repeating over the name of Iesus and Mary so oft together as maketh it seem a ludicrous Canting.