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4. Prayer and Praise are not the things prescribed and enjoined in and by the Liturgy: It is so far from it, that thereby all Prayers and Praises in Church-Assemblies, merely as such, are prohibited; but it is its own forms, way and mode, with their determination and limitation alone, that are instituted, prescribed and enjoined by it: But these things have no Divine Institution, and therefore are so far false Worship.

4. Prayer and Praise are not the things prescribed and enj•yned in and by the Liturgy: It is so far from it, that thereby all Prayers and Praises in Church-Assemblies, meerly as such, are prohibited; but it is its own forms, way and mode, with their determination and limitation alone, that are instituted, prescribed and enjoyned by it: But these things have no Divine Institution, and therefore are so far false Worship.

§. 11. Here are two more strange Mistakes: 1. Are there so many Prayers enjoined, and the people called on with a [Let us Pray], and yet is not Prayer enjoined? There is some secret meaning ⟨p. 18⟩in this: For doubtless, you would never else affirm it, and expect that all men renounce their Senses;¹ you can mean nothing less than that their imposed Forms, when used as commanded, are no Prayers, which is another Error. If so, then all the Prayers of the Church of God for 1300. years at least, that we read of, were no Prayers: And then you desire no part in the Prayers of any Churches on Earth, at this day, save New Englands, or a few Separatists. What wonder then, if you be left without the Benefit of all those Prayers? Is this the Communion of Saints, in the Catholic Church?