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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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2. Argument. That which was in its first contrivance, and hath been in its continuance, an Invention and Engine to defeat, or render useless the Promise of Christ unto his Church, of sending the holy Spirit in all Ages to enable it unto the due discharge and performance of all Divine Worship in its Assemblies, is unlawful to be complied withal, nor can be admitted in Religious Worship; But such is the Liturgical Worship. That the Lord Christ did make such a Promise, that he doth make it good, that the very Being and Continuance of the Church (without which, it is but a dead Machine) doth depend thereon, I suppose will not be denied, it hath been undeniably proved.