A02990:95
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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Who seeth not,1 that the imposing of prayers devised by other men upon the churches,2 to be used of all ministers ordinarily for theirs and the churches prayers,3 doth much derogate from the honour, fruit and benefit of Christs ascension into heaven, and from the love, care and bounty that he hath and showeth continually to his church upon earth, giving gifts to men for the work of the ministry and the profit of the churches? Eph. 4. 8, 13. 1. Cor. 12. 4, 5, 6. with Matth. 28. 20. Whatsoever derogateth from the honour, fruit and benefit of the ascension of Christ,4 that is wicked and unlawful: But to read prayers out of a book derogateth from the honour, fruit and benefit of Christs ascension.
Who seeth not,1 that the imposing of prayers devised by other men upn the churches,2 to be used of all ministers ordinarily for theirs and the churches prayers,3 doth much derogate from the honour, fruit and benefit of Christs ascension into heaven, and from the love, care and bounty that he hath and sheweth continually to his church upon earth, giving gifts to men for the work of the ministery and the profit of the churches? Eph. 4. 8, 13. 1. Cor. 12. 4, 5, 6. with