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Stinted prayer voluntarily taken up upon a mans self is not so much unlawful;¹ but prayer imposed upon men, because in such case they subject themselves to mans ordinance in Gods worship.

Stinted prayer voluntarily taken up upon a mans self is not so much unlawfull;¹ but prayer imposed upon men, because in such case they subject themselves to mans ordinance in Gods worship.

1. 1Object. 3. Copy of a Letter, pag. 16.

This is a strange description of mans ordinance in the worship of God,¹ or of worshipping God after the ordinances of men. For thence it will follow, that the same devised worship voluntarily taken up hath some allowance, as the ordinance of God, and ceaseth only to be of God when it is imposed. Whereas the ordinances of men in Gods worship condemned in scripture are not mere matters of order, forms of words and phrases, circumstances of time and place determined by men according to the general rules; but matters of worship devised besides and against the word of God; and are unlawful whether voluntarily taken up and devised of our selves, or imposed by others.

This is a strange description of mans ordinance in the worship of God,¹ or of worshipping God after the ordinances of men. For thence it will follow, that the same devised worship voluntarily taken up hath some allowance, as the ordinance of God, and ceaseth onely to be of God when it is imposed. Whereas the ordinances of men in Gods worship condemned in scripture are not mere matters of order, forms of words and phrases, circumstances of time and place determined by men according to the generall rules; but matters of worship devised besides and against the word of God; and are unlawfull whether voluntarily taken up and devised of our selves, or imposed by others.