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A defence of the principles of love, which are necessary to the unity and…
A defence of the principles of love, which are necessary to the unity and concord of Christians and are delivered in a book called The cure of church-divisions ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for Nevil Simmons, 1671
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Answ. 1. Let the Reader observe whether ever Christ, his Apostles, or the Pharisees meddled with the Controversy about the lawfulness of forms? Whether ever Christ condemned them? 2. Let the Reader note that when I say that Certainly forms were used, I say not, whether in the Synagogue or Temple, or House, nor do I say that they were other forms than Divine? But when I say that it is like in many things the Pharisees Liturgy was worse than ours, I mean that it is like (though not certain) that part of it was of humane invention, and used publicly.
Answ. 1. Let the Reader observe whether ever Christ, his Apostles, or the Pharisees medled with the Controversie about the lawfulness of forms? Whether ever Christ condemned them? 2. Let the Reader note that when I say that Certainly forms were used, I say not, whether in the Synagogue or Temple, or House, nor do I say that they were other forms than Divine? But when I say that it is like in many things the Pharisees Liturgie was worse than ours, I mean that it is like (though not certain) that part of it was of humane invention, and used publickly.
And, 1. The word Liturgy (as Martinius and other Etymologists agree, hath three significations, 1. The largest is, for any public office of ministry, and specially of distribution. 2. For the public service of God, in reading, teaching, praying, &c. 3. For stated orders and forms of that public service, To which Bellarmine addeth a 4th. as the narrowest sense of all, viz For the sacrificing offices only; which is no usual sense. Now the second and third being the now-Common sense, I thought there had1 been no question about them.
And, 1. The word Liturgie (as Martinius and other Etymologists agree, hath three significations, 1. The largest is, for any publick office of ministry, and specially of distribution. 2. For the publick service of God, in reading, teaching, praying, &c. 3. For stated orders and forms of that publick service, To which Bellarmine addeth a 4th. as the narrowest sense of all, viz For the sacrificing offices only; which is no usual sense. Now the second and third being the now-Common sense, I thought there had