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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 6: In scripture there be prescript forms of blessing, prayers, salutations, &c. which may…
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Moses did not prescribe unto the priests a form of words whereunto they must be tied in blessing of the people,1 but only gave them a rule of direction according to which they should bless them: For otherwise the priests had sinned, whensoever, ⟨p. 99⟩pronouncing the blessing, they had used other words.2 And the particle, Thus, So, or In this manner, denoteth the form or similitude of the things whereof there is mention,3 &c. It is a troublesome thing that these ministers thus urge the letter of the scriptures, as if the question were not about their sense and interpretation; which they should prove to be for their stinted service, &c. but the question is, whether Moses tied and stinted the priests to that form of words in blessing the people.4 The like they say of the form of baptism.
Moses did not prescribe unto the priests a form of words whereunto they must be tyed in blessing of the people,1 but onely gave them a rule of direction according to which they should blesse them: For otherwise the priests had sinned, whensoever, ⟨p. 99⟩pronouncing the blessing, they had used other words.2 And the particle, Thus, So, or In this manner, denoteth the form or similitude of the things whereof there is mention,3 &c. It is a troublesome thing that these ministers thus urge the letter of the scriptures, as if the question were not about their sense and interpretation; which they should prove to be for their stinted service, &c. but the question is, whether Moses tyed and stinted the priests to that form of words in blessing the people.