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2. And it is another Mistake, That Christ's institution respecteth only the internal form, and the manner of performance: The internal form is inward desire offered mentally to God. ¹And is not this Natural, if Prayer be? Sure the Form is the Thing. But the institution of Christ reacheth the Matter of Prayer, as well as the inward Form and outward Manner: That we pray for the things mentioned in the Lord's Prayer; for God's Glory, Kingdom Will to be obeyed, &c. for Pardon, the Spirit, Grace, Glory, &c. That the Gospel may have free course, &c.

1. 1XVIII. Error.

It is another Mistake▪ That the manner of performance is sinful, which is not of Christ's institution. The Words, and Method, and Length, are the manner of performance.¹ Can you show an Institution determinative of all the Words, Method and ⟨p. 16⟩Length of all our Prayers? Or of all our Psalms, Rhymes and Tunes, and all our Gestures and Utensils? &c. By these words I am induced to hope, that the common report, That you were against the ordinary use of the Lord's Prayer in words, is false: for here you seem to be more for it than you ought: For if all the outward Manner must be instituted by Christ, sure the Lord's Prayer will be, at least the chief part.

It is another Mistake▪ That the manner of performance is sinful, which is not of Christ's institution. The Words, and Method, and Length, are the manner of performance.¹ Can you shew an Institution determinative of all the Words, Method and