A02990:215
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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Whatsoever worship is offered up to God by the minister,1 is in their name, and so the action of the assembly then present, who are to declare their assent by saying Amen if it be lawful, if otherwise, to call upon their minister to fulfil the ministry which he hath received of the Lord, Col. 4. 17. and, as occasion shall require, to proceed further, to declare their dislike, in such a manner as is meet, either by absenting themselves from it, or otherwayes declaring their dislike, so as the whole church may take notice of it.
Whatsoever worship is offered up to God by the minister,1 is in their name, and so the action of the assembly then present, who are to declare their assent by saying Amen if it be lawfull, if otherwise, to call upon their minister to fulfill the ministery which he hath received of the Lord, Col. 4. 17. and, as occasion shall require, to proceed further, to declare their dislike, in such a manner as is meet, either by absenting themselves from it, or otherwayes declaring their dislike, so as the whole church may take notice of it.
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Whatsoever worship is offered up to God by the minister,1 whether in prayer conceived by himself or devised by others, it is in the name of the congregation: but every phrase, petition or branch of petition is not approved by their presence, silence, or saying Amen to the prayers in general, as in the former passage is acknowledged. The presence of the people was never deemed interpretatively a consent to every thing that was there done. The prayers which for matter God disalloweth we ought to disallow, but as God disalloweth them, and as he calleth us