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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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Public prayers offered up by the minister in the church-assemblies must be framed according to the present and several occasions of the church and people of God:1 which cannot be done when men are stinted to those forms.2
Publick prayers offered up by the minister in the church-assemblies must be framed according to the present and severall occasions of the church and people of God:1 which cannot be done when men are stinted to those forms.2
- 1Object. 7. Copy of a Letter. pag. 21.Object. 7. Copie of a Letter. pag. 21.
- 2Greenwood, Against Giff. pag. 24.
Occasions are ordinary and common,1 or more special. In a stinted form prayers may be offered up by the minister according to the common and ordinary occasions of the church and people of God assembled, though not according to the special occasions, which may happen now and then, or more particularly concern this or that person. For if the same blessings are daily to be craved, he prayeth according to the present occasions that asketh the same blessings of God. If it be said, There be many occasions of particular use for the congregation and others, which are not mentioned expressly: that proveth not, That a man cannot in a stinted form pray according to the several occasions; but, that some stinted forms do not meet with all and every particular occasion: which is easily granted. But if a stinted form meet not with every mans occasions, or not so particularly as it ought, doth it hence follow that in a stinted form a man cannot pray according to the present occasions at all? If this be the