A26892:93
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.
CHAP. XXIII. Directions for Prayer in general. p 587 A Scheme or brief Explication of the Exact Method of the Lords Prayer. p. 590 Tit. 2. Cases about Prayer. p. 591. Q. 1. Is the Lords Prayer to be used as a form of words, or only as a Directory for Matter and Method? Q. 2. What need is there of any other prayer, if this he perfect? Q. 3. Is it lawful to pray in a set form of words? Q. 4. Are those forms lawful which are prescribed by man, and not by God? Q 5 Is free praying, called extemporate, lawful? Q. 6. Which is the better? Q. 7. Must we ever follow the Method of the Lords Prayer? Q. 8. Must we pray only when the Spirit moveth us, or as Reason guideth us? Q. 9. May be pray for Grace who desireth it not? Q. 10. May he pray that doubteth of his interest in God, and dare not call him Father as his Child? Q. 11. May a wicked man pray, or is he ever accepted? Q. 12. May a wicked man use the Lords Prayer? Q. 13. Is it Idolatry, or sin always to pray to Saints or Angels? Q. 14. Must the same man pray secretly, that hath before prayed in his family? Q. 15. Is it best to keep set hours for prayer? Q 16. May we join in family prayers with ungodly persons? Q. 17 What if the Master or speaker be ungodly or a Heretic? Q. 18. May we pray absolutely for outward mercies, or only conditionally? Q. 19. May we pray for all that we may lawfully desire? Q. 20. How may we pray for the salvation of all the world? Q. 21. Or for the Conversion of all Nations? Q. 22. Or that a whole Kingdom may be converted and saved? Q. 23. Or for the destruction of the enemies of Christ, or the Kingdom? Q. 24. What is to be judged of a particular faith? Q. 25. Is every lawful prayer accepted? Q. 26. With what faith must I pray for the souls or bodies of others? Q. 27. With what faith may we pray for the Continuance of the Church or Gospel. Q. 28. How to know when our prayers are heard. Q. 29. How to have fullness and constant supply of matter in our prayers. Q 30. How to keep up fervency in prayer? Q 31. May we look to speed ever the better for any thing in our selves or our prayers? Or may we put any trust in them? Q. 32. How must that person and prayer be qualified which God will accept. to p. 598 Tit. 3. Special Directions for family prayer. ibid. Tit. 4. Special Directions for secret prayer. p. 599
CHAP. XXIII. Directions for Prayer in general. p 587 A Scheme or brief Explication of the Exact Method of the Lords Prayer. p. 590