A27066:47
Mr. Baxter's vindication of the Church of England in her rites and ceremonies, discipline,…
Mr. Baxter's vindication of the Church of England in her rites and ceremonies, discipline, and church-orders as faithfully taken out of his own writings, without either false citation, or fraudulent alteration : to which is prefixed his epistle to the non-conformists, being a just and true abstract of his book entitled, A defence of the principles of love.Mr. Baxter's vindication of the Church of England in her rites and ceremonies, discipline, and church-orders as faithfully taken out of his own writings, without either false citation, or fraudulent alteration : to which is prefixed his epistle to the non-conformists, being a just and true abstract of his book entituled, A defence of the principles of love.
London: printed for Walter Kettilby, 1682
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.
3. Church-Music by Organs, or such like Instruments.
3. Church-Musick by Organs, or such like Instruments.
In his Christian Directory, Ecclesiastical Cases.Q. 86.
Mr. Baxter renders these five Reasons for the Use and Lawfulness thereof.
1. God set it up long after Moses's Ceremonial Law, by David, Solomon, &c.
2. It is not merely an instituted Ceremony, but a natural help to the Minds alacrity; and 'tis a duty, ⟨p. 22⟩and not a sin to use the helps of Nature and lawful Art: As it is lawful (says he) to use Spectacles in reading the Bible, so it is to use Music (speaking of Church-Music) to exhilarate the Soul.