A26892:7255
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.
Answ. 1. We may use them in that measure of suitableness to our cases which they have. You may join with a man in prayer who expresseth part of your wants, though he express not all. Else you must join with no man in the world.
Answ. 1. We may use them in that measure of suitableness to our cases which they have. You may joyn with a man in prayer who expresseth part of your wants, though he express not all. Else you must joyn with no man in the world.
2. If ungodly men are present when the faithful speak to God, must we not speak our proper case, because they are present? The Minister in Church-administrations speaketh principally in the name of the faithful, and not of hypocrites. Must he leave out of his prayers all that is proper to the Godly, merely because some wicked men are there? No more must the Church do in singing unto God.
2. If ungodly men are present when the faithful speak to God, must we not speak our proper case, because they are present? The Minister in Church-administrations speaketh principally in the name of the faithful, and not of hypocrites. Must he leave out of his prayers all that is proper to the Godly, meerly because some wicked men are there? No more must the Church do in singing unto God.
3. They that cannot speak every word in a Psalm just as their own case; may yet speak it as instructive: Otherwise they might not read or say it.1