A26892:7257
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.
Quest. 125. May Psalms be used as Prayers, and Praises, and Thanksgivings, or only as Instructive? Even the Reading as well as the Singing of them?
Quest. 125. May Psalms be used as Prayers, and Prayses, and Thanksgivings, or only as Instructive? Even the Reading as well as the Singing of them?
Answ. The sober Reader who knoweth not what errors others hold, will marvel that I trouble men with such questions. But I have oft been troubled with those that1 (having no other shift to deny the Lawfulness of written and set forms of prayer) do affirm that Psalms are neither to be read or sung at all as Prayers, but only as doctrinal Scriptures for Instruction. But that this is false appeareth,
Answ. THe sober Reader who knoweth not what errors others hold, will marvel that I trouble men with such questions. But I have oft been troubled with those that1 (having no other shift to deny the Lawfulness of written and set forms of prayer) do affirm that Psalms are neither to be read or sung at all as Prayers, but only as doctrinal Scriptures for Instruction. But that this is false appeareth,
- 1Psal. 72. 20. Psal. 90. Title. Psal. 86. Title.