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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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After the sermon ended, followed the prayers of the congregation, as the testimonies before alleged plentifully confirm. Clemen. Constit. lib. 2. cap. 57. After the exhortation of the Presbyter and the Bishop, all pray unto God. Justin. Apol. 2. ad Anton. Then we rise all and pray together, sc. after the exhortation ended. Origen. Hom. 3. in Isa. Idcirco surgentes oremus Deum, & Hom. 36. in Luc. Surgamus, precemúrque Deum. Chrysost. Hom. 50. ad cap. 14. Matth. But now it is time to conclude our speech with prayer; orate igitur universi nobiscum. In all which we see the wisdom of the church so moderated the length of the Liturgy that each ordinance of God had its proper season; that reading and prayer did not thrust out ⟨p. 148⟩preaching,1 nor preaching eat up prayer; that the weak were not tired and burdened, nor the sluggish fostered in their security. And if a Liturgy be only burdensome for length, it is not altogether to be cast off: For the thing it self is thereby justified as good and allowable, that which burdeneth being taken away. And it is much better to wrestle against bodily tiredness with spiritual fervour, then deprive themselves of the comfort and profit which is to be had in the ordinances of God.
After the sermon ended, followed the prayers of the congregation, as the testimonies before alledged plentifully confirm. Clemen. Constit. lib. 2. cap. 57. After the exhortation of the Presbyter and the Bishop, all pray unto God. Justin. Apol. 2. ad Anton. Then we rise all and pray together, sc. after the exhortation ended. Origen. Hom. 3. in Isa. Idcirco surgentes oremus Deum, & Hom. 36. in Luc. Surgamus, precemúrque Deum. Chrysost. Hom. 50. ad cap. 14. Matth. But now it is time to conclude our speech with prayer; orate igitur universi nobiscum. In all which we see the wisdome of the church so moderated the length of the Liturgie that each ordinance of God had its proper season; that reading and prayer did not thrust out ⟨p. 148⟩preaching,1 nor preaching eat up prayer; that the weak were not tired and burdened, nor the sluggish fostered in their securitie. And if a Liturgie be onely burdensome for length, it is not altogether to be cast off: For the thing it self is thereby justified as good and allowable, that which burdeneth being taken away. And it is much better to wrestle against bodily tirednesse with spirituall fervour, then deprive themselves of the comfort and profit which is to be had in the ordinances of God.