A26892:6895
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 87: Quest. 87. Is it lawful to stand up at the Gospel as we are appointed?
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Quest. 87. Is it lawful to stand up at the Gospel as we are appointed?
Answ. 1. Had I been a prescriber to others my self, I should not have required the Church to stand up at the reading of one part of a Chapter by the name of the Gospel, and not at the same words when the whole Chapter is read.
Answ. 1. HAd I been a prescriber to others my self, I should not have required the Church to stand up at the reading of one part of a Chapter by the name of the Gospel, and not at the same words when the whole Chapter is read.
2. But if I live where Rulers peremptorily command it (I suppose not▪ forbidding us to stand up at the Gospel read in Chapters, but selecting this as an instance of their signified Consent to the Gospel, who will do no more) I would obey them rather than give offence, by standing up at the Reading of the Chapters and all; which I suppose will be no violation of their Laws.
2. But if I live where Rulers peremptorily command it (I suppose not▪ forbiding us to stand up at the Gospel read in Chapters, but selecting this as an instance of their signified Consent to the Gospel, who will do no more) I would obey them rather than give offence, by standing up at the Reading of the Chapters and all; which I suppose will be no violation of their Laws.