A02990:60
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 matter,1 if supposed to be alike from God, as being truth and according to sound doctrine; the manner (in that we call conceived prayer) is the same which nature teacheth and scripture approveth, and is the only way in which the prayers of all holy men recorded in scripture since Christ have been carried, as the Papists themselves grant. But for the manner or way of book-prayer, we have not so much as example in scripture for it.
The matter,1 if supposed to be alike from God, as being truth and according to sound doctrine; the manner (in that we call conceived prayer) is the same which nature teacheth and scripture approveth, and is the onely way in which the prayers of all holy men recorded in scripture since Christ have been carried, as the Papists themselves grant. But for the manner or way of book-prayer, we have not so much as example in scripture for it.
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The strength of this reason let us view in the like:1 Mr Smith would prove the originals not to be given as helps before the eye in worship,2 Because upon the day of Pentecost and many years after the churches of the new Testament did use no books in time of spiritual worship, but prayed, prophesied, and sung psalms merely out of their hearts, Acts 2. 4, 42. & 10. 44, 48. & 19. 6.