A02990:91
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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yea, he may use those very expressions and forms which others have used before him, when they be more fit and moving then of himself he could reach unto. In singing psalms, though the minister be able to turn them into more grave, solid, exact metre then usual, and nearer to the original, yet it is not denied but he may make use of other mens gifts inferior to his own. In reading the scripture in a prescribed translation, which is a part of Gods public worship, whose gifts doth the minister make use of? what ministerial gift is exercised or manifested therein? Every child of twelve or thirteen years old, in respect of the outward act, is as well able to read a chapter as the stinted Liturgy.
yea, he may use those very expressions and forms which others have used before him, when they be more fit and moving then of himself he could reach unto. In singing psalmes, though the minister be able to turn them into more grave, solid, exact metre then usuall, and nearer to the originall, yet it is not denied but he may make use of other mens gifts inferiour to his own. In reading the scripture in a prescribed translation, which is a part of Gods publick worship, whose gifts doth the minister make use of? what ministeriall gift is exercised or manifested therein? Every child of twelve or thirteen yeares old, in respect of the outward act, is as well able to reade a chapter as the stinted Liturgie.
They answer,1 that,2 Between public reading of scriptures and public reading of prayers there be two differences: First, the public reading of the scripture is Gods ordinance; but stinted prayers have not warrant from the word. Secondly, reading of the scriptures in the public assembly simply considered in it self, is not the proper work of the minister.
They answer,1 that,