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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
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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. And I think it unlawful to use such strains of Music as are Light, or as the Congregation cannot easily be brought to understand: Much more on purpose to commit the whole work of singing to the Choristers, and exclude the Congregation. I am not willing to join in such a Church where I shall be shut out of this noble work of praise.
2. And I think it unlawful to use such streins of Musick as are Light, or as the Congregation cannot easily be brought to understand: Much more on purpose to commit the whole work of singing to the Choristers, and exclude the Congregation. I am not willing to joyn in such a Church where I shall be shut out of this noble work of praise.
3. But plain intelligible Church-music, which occasioneth not divisions, but the Church agreeth in, for my part I never doubted to be lawful. For, 1. God set it up long after Moses Ceremonial Law, by David, Solomon, &c.
3. But plain intelligible Church-musick, which occasioneth not divisions, but the Church agreeth in, for my part I never doubted to be lawful. For, 1. God set it up long after Moses Ceremonial Law, by David, Solomon, &c.
2. It is not an instituted Ceremony merely, but a natural help to the minds alacrity: And it is a1 duty and not a sin to use the helps of nature and Lawful art, though, to institute Sacraments, &c. of our own. As it is lawful to use the comfortable helps of spectacles in reading the Bible, so is it of Music to exhilarate the soul towards God.
2. It is not an instituted Ceremony meerly, but a natural help to the minds alacrity: And it is a