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And who knoweth not, that Man's culpable Nature loveth Novelties, and are hardly kept in lively Affections under any thing that is very often said? A Book, or Sermon, tho never so good, affecteth us not so much after many times reading and hearing, as at the first: We must not lay this weakness on the New Creature, tho it should teach Imposers to suit the Remedy to the Disease, and give children such food as is not too displeasing to their Appetites.

And yet I find not the generality of Appetites▪ even in your Flocks, is against the Forms of Psalms, being not prejudiced against them.

It is not true, that Liturgies are inconsistent with the conduct of the Spirit in Prayer: It is a Mistake also,¹ That this Form of Worship rejecteth and excludeth the matter of Prayer, whenas the Visible Book tells all the contrary. Do all those words express none of the Matter of Prayer? It is untrue, That it rejecteth and excludeth the Manner, as to the chief part: For the Lord's Prayer is a perfect Form for Matter, Order and Method: And the Psalms read and sung, are for Matter and Manner, neither evil nor excluded. And sure there is much of the rest laudable. If all Matter and Manner be rejected and excluded, then the Martyrs that used it, and all the Churches on Earth, almost, have no Church-Prayers. But again I tell▪ The use of Forms, and the forbidding all other Prayers, are Two different things, which you ill confound.

1. 1XL. Error.