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You say, the Liturgy takes on it self to supply and determine Matter.

Ans. 1. Matter is more than Manner. But this is another Mistake: For the Liturgy supposeth that Scripture is the Rule, and Christ the Commander of all the Matter of Prayer which is of constant use and need (as the Articles of Religion, and the Ordination-Covenant show): And you give no instance of the contrary. But as to mutable Matter, which vary as occasions by Providence do (as days of Humiliation and Thanksgiving, the 5th of November, and those things that are specially suited to some times and places), you determine of such your selves in all your Prayers.

Ans. 1. Matter is more than Manner. But this is another Mistake: For the Liturgy supposeth that Scripture is the Rule, and Christ the Commander of all the Matter of Prayer which is of constant use and need (as the Articles of Religion, and the Ordination-Covenant shew): And you give no instance of the contrary. But as to mutable Matter, which vary as occasions by Providence do (as days of Humiliation and Thanksgiving, the 5th of November, and those things that are specially suited to some times and places), you determine of such your selves in all your Prayers.

¹It is another Mistake, That thus to limit the Concerns of Prayer to M•des and Forms, is to take Christ's work out of his hands. If so, then you must show us where Christ himself undertook so to limit us to his Modes and Forms only: else it is not Christ's proper work: Is there a Liturgy of his making, more than we ever heard of? 2. And then do not all Ministers in every public Prayer, take Christ's work out of his hands? Do they not limit the people in Matter, Mode, and Form of words? What heavy charges lay you on your selves? Do not the Composers of Hymns and Psalms, so limit them to Mode and Form? It's clear that they do.