A02990:219
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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Here the reason taken from the faults of our Liturgy is plainly dismissed out of the field:1 For our ⟨p. 164⟩Liturgy is to be witnessed against by this objection, not because it is erroneous or faulty, nor for the matter or manner of imposition, but simply because it is not the Liturgy appointed by Christ in the New Testament. And many things are here confounded which should have been distinguished. Prayer is the ordinance of God, and all Christians are bound in conscience to apply themselves unto it: But the forms of prayer may be divers; all allowed, because none is necessary or determined: and therefore though allowed, no man is bound in conscience precisely to apply himself unto any one and none other; much less all churches. And as they are not bound unto any one, so neither to witness against it, a stinted Liturgy being of the number of things lawful but not determined by God.
Here the reason taken from the faults of our Liturgie is plainly dismissed out of the field:1 For our ⟨p. 164⟩Liturgie is to be witnessed against by this objection, not because it is erroneous or faulty, nor for the matter or manner of imposition, but simply because it is not the Liturgie appointed by Christ in the New Testament. And many things are here confounded which should have been distinguished. Prayer is the ordinance of God, and all Christians are bound in conscience to apply themselves unto it: But the forms of prayer may be divers; all allowed, because none is necessary or determined: and therefore though allowed, no man is bound in conscience precisely to apply himself unto any one and none other; much lesse all churches. And as they are not bound unto any one, so neither to witnesse against it, a stinted Liturgie being of the number of things lawfull but not determined by God.
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