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§. 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?

§. 11. HEre are two more strange Mistakes: 1. Are there so many Prayers enjoyned, and the people called on with a [Let us Pray], and yet is not Prayer enjoyned? There is some secret meaning ⟨p. 18⟩in this: For doubtless, you would never else affirm it, and expect that all men renounce their Sences;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 Catholick Church?

1. 1XXII. Error.