Catholic communion defended against both extremes, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ...…Catholick communion defended against both extreams, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ...…

§ 9. Your Second Answer is no better: 1. If by absolutely, you mean not generally (but as opposite to conditional), it hath no sense here that I can find: But if it be [in genere] that you mean, as the Context intimateth, they are no part of Worship at all, natural or instituted: For there is praying, which is cursing, and striving against God and Goodness, and praying to Idols. But I suppose you mean [de specie], praying to the true God for good things needful. And so it is another Mistake, That this Prayer is not of Christ's Institution, because it is a part of Natural Worship. All is of Christ's institution which is part of his commanding Law: The Law of Nature is now Christ's Law, who by Redemption is become Lord of Nature, and of all, John 17.2, 3. Mat. 28.18, 19. Eph. 1.22, 23. Rom. 14.9, 10. John 5.22, &c. He most strictly commandeth Natural Duties. The Ten Commandments were of Natural Obligation,¹ and yet instituted. And as Love was called a New and Special Commandment, as required on new and special grounds and ends, so is Prayer thus far also new.

§ 9. YOur Second Answer is no better: 1. If by absolutely, you mean not generally (but as opposite to conditional), it hath no sense here that I can find: But if it be [in genere] that you mean, as the Context intimateth, they are no part of Worship at all, natural or instituted: For there is praying, which is cursing, and striving against God and Goodness, and praying to Idols. But I suppose you mean [de specie], praying to the true God for good things needful. And so it is another Mistake, That this Prayer is not of Christ's Institution, because it is a part of Natural Worship. All is of Christ's institution which is part of his commanding Law: The Law of Nature is now Christ's Law, who by Redemption is become Lord of Nature, and of all, Iohn 17.2, 3