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The liturgical considerator considered, or, A brief view of Dr. Gauden's considerations touching the…
The liturgical considerator considered, or, A brief view of Dr. Gauden's considerations touching the liturgy of the Church of England wherein the reasons by him produced for imposing the said liturgy upon all, are found to be so weak, his defence of things offensive in it so slight, the arguments against the liturgy by himself afforded, are so strong, that some, who upon His Majesties declaration did incline to the liturgy, are now further from it, by reading his wordy discourse about it : also some reasons humbly rendered, why many ministers, as yet cannot conform to that liturgy, but not out of disloyalty, pride, ingratitude, peevishness, nor schismatical petulancy, as the sarcastical pen of this uncharitable doctor hath published ... / by G.F.The liturgical considerator considered, or, A brief view of Dr. Gauden's considerations touching the liturgy of the Church of England wherein the reasons by him produced for imposing the said liturgy upon all, are found to be so weak, his defence of things offensive in it so slight, the arguments against the liturgy by himselfe afforded, are so strong, that some, who upon His Majesties declaration did incline to the liturgy, are now further from it, by reading his wordy discourse about it : also some reasons humbly rendered, why many ministers, as yet cannot conform to that liturgy, but not out of disloyalty, pride, ingratitude, peevishness, nor schismatical petulancy, as the sarcastical pen of this uncharitable doctor hath published ... / by G.F.
London: printed for Ralph Smith, 1661
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Sixthly, When the same Arguments were in as much force in the Apostles days as they are now, yet they were not so witty to invent Liturgies, or to impose them on the Church.
Seventhly, When men may as well take away the gift of Preaching as of Prayer; the same Arguments will remove the one as well as the other.
Eighthly, When I see the same Confessions, Petitions, &c. which are made in the Liturgies read, are presently made with more enlargement by those who pray by their own gift with the assistance of the Spirit.
Ninthly, When this tying up to Liturgies, and that wholly in Sacraments, &c. quite destroys that Petition in our preparations and prayers for the assistance of the Spirit, as to the matter of our prayer, acknowledging our own inability to think one good thought, for we are tied exactly to words.