Baxter - BT785 B39 1657

Spirituali Peace and Comfort. 2 85 it be a true Church, or rightly gathered, or govern- ed , or the Minifter a true Minifter, and twenty the like. When they fhoufd Joyn with the Church in the fingingofGodsPraifes,he will move one to fcru- ple finging David. Pfalms, another to fcruple ting- ing among the ungodly, another tingingPfalms that agree not to every mans condition ; another, be- caufe our tranflation is bad, or our Meeter defective, andwe might have better. When men fhould fpend theLords Day in Cods Spiritual Worfhip, he cauf- ethone to fcruple whether the Lords Day be ofDi- vine Inftitution : another he drives into theother extream, to fcruple alr;oft every thing that is not worfhip ; Whether theymay provide their meat on that day ( when yet it is a folemnday of thankfgív- ir,and they fernple not muchmore onother thankf- giving days) or whether they may fo much as move a flick out of their way ; Others he moves to trou- ble themfelves with fcruples, at what hour theday begins and ends, and the like Whereas if they, i .Underftood that worldly reff iscommanded but as a help to fpiritual Worfhip. 2. And that they muf imploy as much of that:day in Gods work, as they do of other days in their Callings, and reftin the night as at other times, and that God looks to rime for the Works fake, and not at the Work for the Time fake;this would cart out moll of their fcruples. The like courfe Satan takes with ChriftiaRs in Read- ing, Praying in 1:<cret, or in their families, Teach- ing theirfamilies, Reproving Sinners, Teaching the Ignorant, Meditation, and all other duties, too long to mention the particular fcruples which he thrufts intomens heads, muchmore to Refolve thesn,which would

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