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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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2. In the frequent impertinent use of the Lords prayer: which is a Prayer when time prevents, or abruptly contracts our own expressions, or to which as a pattern our Prays must conform: but will not therefore be necessary to be used in the beginning, middle, and end of Prayers, 1(as the Reverend Hooker doth suggest) nor is essential to every Act of Devotion, to which a fancy of a sanctifying power of the words, not Christs prescription doth direct it, rendering it a vain, senseless repetition, and self-devised Worship.
2. In the frequent impertinent use of the Lords prayer: which is a Prayer when time prevents, or abruptly contracts our own expressions, or to which as a puttern our Prayes must conform: but will not therefore be necessary to be used in the beginning, middle, and end of Prayers, 1(as the Reverend Hooker doth suggest) nor is essential to every Act of Devotion, to which a fancy of a sanctifying power of the words, not Christs prescription doth direct it, rendring it a vain, sensless repetition, and self-devised Worship.
- 1Eccl spot. lib. 5. Sect. 34. p. 255, 256.Eccl spo•. lib. 5. Sect. 34. p. 255, 256.
3. The Doxology, a good compendious Confession of the Deity and Eternity of the three persons; yet ungroundedly added to the end of every Psalm, unless on sense of some Sacred Nature and efficacy of the words; without which I cannot acquit it from addition to the Scriptures.