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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
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The general heads contained in this Book.
The generall heads conteined in this Book.
CHAP. I. OF a stinted form of prayer. pag. 1. CHAP. II. All things essential to prayer may be observed in a prescript form. pag. 12. CHAP. III. A stinted Liturgy or public form of prayer is no breach of the second commandment. pag. 23. CHAP. IIII. It is as lawful to pray unto God in a form of words devised by others, as to sing psalms to the praise of God in a stinted form of words prescribed by others. pag. 54. ⟨image 168⟩CHAP. V. A stinted form of prayer doth not quench the Spirit. pag. 83. CHAP. VI. In scripture there be prescript forms of blessing, prayers, salutations, &c. which may lawfully be used. pag. 97. CHAP. VII. The churches of God have both used and approved a stinted Liturgy. pag. 106. CHAP. VIII. The people may lawfully be present at those prayers which are put up unto God in a stinted form of words, and partake in Divine ordinances administered in a stinted Liturgy. pag. 122. CHAP. IX. It is lawful for a Christian to be present at that service which is read out of a book in some things faulty both for form and matter. pag. 157. ⟨image 168⟩CHAP. X. It is lawful to communicate in a mixed congregation where ignorant and profane persons be admitted to the sacrament. pag. 187. CHAP. XI. Of holding communion with that assembly in the worship of God, where we cannot perform all duties mentioned Matth. 18. 15, 16, 17. pag. 216. CHAP. XII. The community of the faithful, much less two or three separated from the world, and gathered together into the name of Christ by a covenant, are not the proper and immediate subject of power ecclesiastical. pag. 231. CHAP. XIII. An examination of sundry positions laid down by Mr Jacob in his Exposition of the second commandment, tending to Separation. pag. 282.