A26892:7251
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 124: Quest. 124. Is it lawful to use Davids Psalms in our Assemblies?
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. It is confessed Lawful to read or say them: Therefore also to sing them. For saying and singing difference not the main end.
3. They are suitable to our use, and were the Liturgy of the Jewish Church, not on a Ceremonial account, but for that fitness which is common to us with them.
4 We are commanded in the New Testament to sing Psalms: And we are not commanded to compose new ones: Nor can every one make Psalms who is commanded to sing Psalms. And if it be lawful to sing Psalms of our own or our neighbours making, much more of Gods making by his Spirit in his Prophets.
4 We are commanded in the New Testament to sing Psalms: And we are not commanded to compose new ones: Nor can every one make Psalms who is commanded to sing Psalms. And if it be lawful to sing Psalms of our own or our neighbours making, much more of Gods making by his Spirit in his Prophe•s.
Object. They are not suitable to all our cases, nor to all in the Assembly.