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The Christian religion expressed I, briefly in the ancient creeds, the Ten commandments, and…
The Christian religion expressed I, briefly in the ancient creeds, the Ten commandments, and the Lords prayer, and, II, more largely in a profession taken out of the Holy Scriptures, containing 1, the articles of the Christian belief, 2, our consent to the gospel covenant, 3, the sum of Christian duty, according to the primitive simplicity, purity, and practice, fitted to the right instruction of the ignorant, the promoting of holiness, and the charitable concord of all true believers ... / by Richard Baxter.
London : s.n., 1660
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.
28. The matter of our holy praises of the Lord, must be his blessed and infinite Being and Nature, and all his Attributes: his infinite Power, and Wisdom, and Goodness: his Truth, and Holiness, and Love: his absolute Dominion, his Sovereignty, and Fatherly benignity: his Justice and his Mercy: even as they are revealed in the works of the Creation, and in the glass of the holy Scripture, and in the person of Jesus Christ, and in the Image of God upon his Saints: And all these his works also must be praised in subserviency to his praise. And because it is a most high and excellent duty to praise the Lord, we must strive to do it with all the faith, and reverence, and admiration, and love, and delight, and joy, and cheerfulness that possibly we can attain: and this with constancy as our daily work, with our eye on heaven, where we shall do it in perfection to all eternity.
28. The matter of our holy praises of the Lord, must be his blessed and infinite Being and Nature, and all his Attributes: his infinite Power, and Wisdom, and Goodness: his Truth, and Holiness, and Love: his absolute Dominion, his Soveraignty, and Fatherly benignity: his Justice and his Mercy: even as they are revealed in the works of the Creation, and in the glass of the holy Scripture, and in the person of Jesus Christ, and in the Image of God upon his Saints: And all these his works also must be praised in subserviency to his praise. And because it is a most high and excellent duty to praise the Lord, we must strive to do it with all the faith, and reverence, and admiration, and love, and delight, and joy, and cheerfulness that possibly we can attain: and this with constancy as our daily work, with our eye on heaven, where we shall do it in perfection to all eternity.
29. As the holy Scriptures should be read in a tongue that the people understand, so should the purest exactest translation of them be used that can be had: And ⟨p. 44⟩though it be not of absolute necessity to the communion or peace of the Churches; yet it is to be desired and endeavoured, that all neighbour Churches that are of one language do all agree in the use of that one translation.