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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
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.
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 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 Musick to exhilerate the soul towards God.
- 11 Sam. 18. 6. 1 Chron. 15. 16. 2 Chron. 5. 13. & 7. 6. & 23. 13. & 34. 22. Psal. 98. & 99. & 149. & 150.
3. Jesus Christ joined with the Jews that used it, and never spake a word against it.
3. Jesus Christ joyned with the Jews that used it, and never spake a word against it.