Catholic communion defended against both extremes, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ...…Catholick communion defended against both extreams, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ...…

Argument 9. That Worship which is unsuited to the spiritual relish of the New Creature, which is inconsistent with the conduct of the Spirit of God in Prayer, is unlawful: For the Nature, Use and Benefit of Prayer is overthrown hereby in a great measure. Now let any one consider what are the Pr•mises, Aids of the Holy Spirit, with respect to the Prayers of the Church, whether as to the Matter of them, or as unto Ability for their performance, or as unto the Manner of it, and he shall find that they are all rejected and excluded by this Form of Worship, as is pretended, comprising the wh•le Matter, limiting the whole Manner, and giving all the Abilities of Prayer that are needful or required: This hath been proved at large.

Argument 9. That Worship which is unsuited to the spiritual relish of the New Creature, which is inconsistent with the conduct of the Spirit of God in Prayer, is unlawful: For the Nature, Use and Benefit of Prayer is overthrown hereby in a great measure. Now let any one consider what are the Pr•mises, Aids of the Holy Spirit, with respect to the Prayers of the Church, whether as to the Matter of them, or as unto Ability for their performance, or as unto the Manner of it, and he shall find that they are all rejected and excluded by this Form of Worship, as is pretended, comprizing the wh•le Matter, limiting the whole Manner, and giving all the Abilities of Prayer that are needful or required: This hath been proved at large.

§ 25. TO your Ninth Argument, I answer, 1. O! confine not the New Creature to those of your Opinion. Do you think none of the Old Nonconformists or Conformists, none of the Reformed Churches, and no Church on Earth for a Thousand years, had any of the New Creature? When you have affrighted People with telling them, it is heinous sin, and returning to Babylon; and also by long disuse, made a Liturgy uncouth to them, do not ascribe all their averseness to the New Creature, which is from prejudice and disuse. For my part, when God taught me first to pray, I had no averseness to a Form: When I heard it charged with sin, I began to be averse to it: When I had studied the case, I was cured of that averseness: but never reconciled to the forbidding of all other Prayer, nor to the faults of any Forms.