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A friendly trial of the grounds tending to separation in a plain and modest…A friendly triall of the grounds tending to separation in a plain and modest…
A friendly trial of the grounds tending to separation in a plain and modest dispute touching the lawfulness of a stinted liturgy and set form of prayer, Communion in mixed assemblies, and the primitive subject and first receptacle of the power of the Keys: tending to satisfy the doubtful, recall the wandering, and to strengthen the weak: by John Ball.A friendly triall of the grounds tending to separation in a plain and modest dispute touching the lawfulnesse of a stinted liturgie and set form of prayer, Communion in mixed assemblies, and the primitive subject and first receptacle of the power of the Keyes: tending to satisfie the doubtfull, recall the wandering, and to strengthen the weak: by John Ball.
Cambridge: printed by Roger Daniel printer to the University of Cambridge for Edward Brewster, 1640Cambridge: printed by Roger Daniel printer to the Universitie of Cambridge for Edward Brewster, 1640
Chapter 5: A stinted form of prayer doth not quench the Spirit.
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These stinted forms do quench the Spirit of prayer,1 in that they deprive the church and minister of that liberty of the Spirit of prayer which God would have them use;2 stinting the minister, yea all the ministers of the kingdom, to the same measure of the Spirit, not only one with another, but all of them with him that is dead and rotten.
These stinted forms do quench the Spirit of prayer,1 in that they deprive the church and minister of that libertie of the Spirit of prayer which God would have them use;2 stinting the minister, yea all the ministers of the kingdome, to the same measure of the Spirit, not onely one with another, but all of them with him that is dead and rotten.
- 1Object. 4.
- 2Robinson, Against Bern. pag. 429.
Nothing is here objected against our stinted form which may not with like truth be alleged against the reading of a prescribed and set translation, 1the use of the Lords prayer, a set form of blessing, singing of psalms, and baptizing in these precise words, I baptize thee, &c. For in these things it may be said, The minister, yea all the ministers in the kingdom are stinted to the same measure of the Spirit, &c. And if in those particulars that form of reasoning be of no weight, in this it is but an empty sound. A stinted form depriveth not the minister or church of that liberty of the Spirit which God would have them use, seeing they may use that notwithstanding, as the several occasions of the church or people shall require. If all ministers throughout the Christian world should put up the same holy and just petitions