A02990:162
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
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Many things are disused,1 and that by the best Christians, which are not unlawful. Where there be many ways to the wood, ordinarily men may make choice of one or two, not disallowing the other. It is lawful for Christians when they pray in their families, daily to read the ten commandments, the profession of faith, &c. which is generally laid aside without sin. Many things ⟨p. 119⟩also may be decent in the congregation which are not so expedient and requisite in the family. And in one congregation a thing may be lawful and of use which is disused in another without sin, where yet it would not be unprofitable.2 The deacons in Chrysostoms and Basils time used to call upon the people with these words, Oremus, Attendamus, Let us pray, Let us give ear. The deacon at the holy mysteries stood up and thus spake unto the people, Oremus pariter omnes. The manner was, that before every lesson or chapter the minister should say unto the people, Let us attend. If this custom be disused either in the congregation or Christian families at this day, it doth not argue the thing it self to be indecent or unprofitable.3