The cure of church-divisions, or, Directions for weak Christians to keep them from being…

And in some Ordinances as Baptism and the Lords supper, &c. the same things must be daily prayed for: And he that thinketh he must not frequently speak the same things, will quite corrupt the Ordinance of Christ. And he that will imagine that he must have always new words, will at last have new things, or worse than nothing. If then it be meet to use often the same words, why may not a weak Minister use the better words of others, when he hath none merely of his own that are so fit?

And in some Ordinances as Baptism and the Lords supper, &c. the same things must be daily prayed for: And he that thinketh he must not frequently speak the same things, will quite corrupt the Ordinance of Christ. And he that will im•gine that he must have always new words, will at last have new things, or worse than nothing. If then it be meet to use often the same words, why may not a weak Minister use the better words of others, when he hath none meerly of his own that are so fit?

Nay is it not the Duty of such to do it? Every man is bound to do Gods service in the best manner that he can: (Cursed be the deceiver that hath a better in his flock, and bringeth that which is corrupt) But to utter prayers and praise to God, in a full, methodical and congruous manner, and in words suitable to the Majesty of the worship of God, is better (to the people and to the honour of Religion) then to do it in a more confused, disorderly, broken manner, with barrenness and incongruity of speech. But this l•st is the best that many honest Ministers can do by their own gi•ts, when they may do it in the former better manner, by making use of the words and gifts of other•. Therefore it is a duty for such men so far to use others ⟨p. 185⟩gifts of inventing words, before their own.

Nay is it not the Duty of such to do it? Every man is bound to do Gods service in the best manner that he can: (Cursed be the deceiver that hath a better in his flock, and bringeth that which is corrupt) But to utter prayers and praise to God, in a full, methodicall and congruous manner, and in words suitable to the Majesty of the worship of God, is better (to the people and to the honour of Religion) then to do it in a more confused, disordery, broken manner, with barrenness and incongruity of speech. But this lst is the best that many honest Ministers can do by their own gits, when they may do it in the former better manner, by making use of the words and gifts of other. Therefore it is a duty for such men so far to use others