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2. And are there no Praises enjoined. Are none of their Psalms, Hymns, and Doxologies, the Praises of God, when used: You suppose that Christ will call them None, or else you durst not. And is such a Slander of Christ, and the Universal Church, no sin?

2. And are there no Praises enjoyned. Are none of their Psalms, Hymns, and Doxologies, the Praises of God, when used: You suppose that Christ will call them None, or else you durst not. And is such a Slander of Christ, and the Universal Church, no sin?

Your next Misreport is that [by the Liturgy, all Prayers and Praises in Church Assemblies are prohibited.] This is too Rash: Where is there a word forbidding them?¹ This can have no Sense, but that either none are Church-Assemblies that have a Liturgy, or that nothing commanded in the Liturgy, is Prayer and Praise in a Church-Assembly: But if this be your meaning, it is both ways untrue. 1. Is there no Church on Earth out of England? Or do they forbid any out of England, to Pray and Praise God? 2. Do they forbid the Dutch and French in England, to Pray and Praise God? 3. Do they forbid all Prayer and Praises in the Pulpits, in the Parish-Churches? 4. Have you proved all the Parish-Churches in England to be No Churches? Where is your Proof, how much soberer were the old Brownists? 5. Have you proved, that Commanding Men to Pray in such words, is forbidding them to Pray? when you set a Psalm for Praise, is that to forbid all Praise? Is not omnis modus entis modus, and includeth the Thing?

1. 1XXIII. Error.

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