A02990:73
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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to him that needeth them not, should he not speak contrary to the commandment? The case is the same in this particular: For the things forbidden in the second commandment are in general nature one with an image, sc. devised worship, which carrieth not the stamp or approbation of God. And when a stinted or set form of prayer is impleaded as contrary to that royal precept, do they not speak contradictories that say, A stinted form is lawful to him that needeth it, but an arbitrary form unlawful, viz. a stinted or devised form, to him that needeth it not? For this is as much as to say, devised worship is lawful and acceptable in him that needeth that help; but arbitrary worship, to wit, to him that needeth it not, is forbidden▪
to him that needeth them not, should he not speak contrary to the commandment? The case is the same in this particular: For the things forbidden in the second commandment are in generall nature one with an image, sc. devised worship, which carrieth not the stamp or approbation of God. And when a stinted or set form of prayer is impleaded as contrary to that royall precept, do they not speak contradictories that say, A stinted form is lawfull to him that needeth it, but an arbitrarie form unlawfull, viz. a stinted or devised form, to him that needeth it not? For this is as much as to say, devised worship is lawfull and acceptable in him that needeth that help; but arbitrarie worship, to wit, to him that needeth it not, is forbidden▪
Actions lawful in case or upon condition only,1 the case being amoved, become unlawful: As for David to eat the show-bread: and in case the woman be not able to bring a lamb for her burnt-offering, then a young pigeon shall be accepted. Now the lawfulness of a stinted form of prayer lieth only in case of some necessity, as a natural help to supply some defect.
Actions lawfull in case or upon condition onely,1