A02990:182
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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If they did use such without good warrant,1 it will be no warrant to us: and if they had warrant from God for any forms they used about the passover, &c. if we have warrant from God we may do the like. And we know we must go by rule and not by unwarranted example in all things about Gods worship.
If they did use such without good warrant,1 it will be no warrant to us: and if they had warrant from God for any forms they used about the passeover, &c. if we have warrant from God we may do the like. And we know we must go by rule and not by unwarranted example in all things about Gods worship.
- 1Object. 4. We must do nothing in the worship of God without warrant of his word: But read-prayer hath no warrant in his word, Greenwood, Against G•fford, pag. 12.
Warrant is twofold:1 One of precise institution, determination, and commandment: and thus all substantial parts and proper means of worship must be warranted. But this warrant is not necessary to a stinted Liturgy, unless it be determined of God in special. And if that be true which some confidently affirm, that reading cannot be prayer; or, that in reading a man cannot speak unto God;2 or, that read-prayer is an idol-prayer: either it cannot be that by special institution a stinted prayer should be prescribed to be read, or special institution is not sufficient to make it warrantable. This I note here once again, to persuade men more considerately to view over their positions, and show to how little purpose they ofttimes answer, that this or that form is not the ⟨p. 134⟩