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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.

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Argument 10. That which overthrows and dissolves our Church-Covenant, as unto the principal end of it, is as to us unlawful. This end is the professed joint subjection of our souls and consciences unto the Authority of Christ, in the observation of whatever he commands, and nothing else, in the Worship of God. But by this practice, this end of the Church-Covenant is destroyed, and thereby the Church-Covenant it self broken: For we do and observe that which Christ hath not commanded: And while some stand unto the Terms of the Covenant, which others relinquish, it will fill the Church with confusion and disorder.

Argument 10. That which overthrows and dissolves our Church-Covenant, as unto the principal end of it, is as to us unlawful. This end is the professed joynt subjection of our souls and consciences unto the Authority of Christ, in the observasion of whatever he commands, and nothing else, in the Worship of God. But by this practice, this end of the Church-Covenant is destroyed, and thereby the Church-Covenant it self broken: For we do and observe that which Christ hath not commanded: And while some stand unto the Terms of the Covenant, which others relinquish, it will fill the Church with confusion and disorder.