A02990:140
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
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.
CHAP. VII. The churches of God have both used and approved a stinted Liturgy.
CHAP. VII. The churches of God have both used and approved a stinted Liturgie.
THE Jews before the coming of our Saviour Christ used a prescript form of prayer and praise or thanksgiving in the celebration of the passover;1 and that which they used was (as it is probable) approved of our Saviour Christ himself. 2The Christian churches of ancient times, for the space of this fourteen hundred years at least, if not from the apostles times, have had their stinted Liturgies: and all reformed churches at this day do not only tolerate but approve, as very expedient,3 a set form of prayer or Liturgy.
THE Jews before the coming of our Saviour Christ used a prescript form of prayer and praise or thanksgiving in the celebration of the passeover;1 and that which they used was (as it is probable) approved of our Saviour Christ himself. 2The Christian churches of ancient times, for the space of this fourteen hundred yeares at least, if not from the apostles times, have had their stinted Liturgies: and all reformed churches at this day do not onely tolerate but approve, as very expedient,3