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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 8: The people may lawfully be present at those prayers which are put up unto God in a stin…
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Our Saviour never joined with them in their prayers,1 though he came often to their synagogues and meetings, but always either to preach unto them, or reprove them for their humane inventions, taking the opportunity of their meetings for this very end.
Our Saviour never joyned with them in their prayers,1 though he came often to their synagogues and meetings, but alwayes either to preach unto them, or reprove them for their humane inventions, taking the opportunitie of their meetings for this very end.
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A stinted Liturgy is challenged to be an humane devise condemned by the second commandment,1 because it is not prescribed in the word: The like exception upon just grounds do I make to this answer, It is an humane devise, a corrupt addition, ⟨p. 132⟩because it hath no warrant from the scripture. Why did our Saviour go up to the feast of the passover according to the custom,2 when he was twelve years old, only to preach unto them, and reprove their humane inventions, and not to keep the passover? Did he ordinarily resort to the synagogues, and was he present at the lectures of the law and prophets, and did not join in prayer?3 He himself telleth us, it behooved him to fulfil all righteousness: and was not this one branch of that righteousness he was to fulfil? It is true, he resorted thither to preach the Gospel, and reprove the corrupt glosses of the scribes and Pharisees: but to preach the Gospel and join in prayer with the people of God in covenant, are things that may well stand together. Our Saviour reproved the humane inventions of the scribes and Pharisees: but did he ever reprove them simply for their stinted Liturgy, or teach the faithful not to join with the rest in their synagogues in any part of their stinted Liturgy? If he came to the synagogues merely to take the opportunity of their meetings, did he celebrate the last passover with his disciples merely for that end likewise? And if any man will be so unadvised and rash (to say no more) it will not avail: For unto their custom of finishing the passover with certain psalms, there is not any thing more probable, then that the holy Evangelist doth evidently allude, saying, that after the cup delivered by our Saviour to his apostles,