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The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner,…
The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner, The friendly debate &c., examined and answered : together with a discourse about separation, and some animadversions upon Dr. Stillingfleet's book entitled, The unreasonableness of separation : observations upon Dr. Templars sermon preached at a visitation in Cambridge : a brief vindication of Mr. Stephen Marshal.The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner, The friendly debate &c., examined and answered : together with a discourse about separation, and some animadversions upon Dr. Stillingfleet's book entituled, The unreasonableness of separation : observations upon Dr. Templers sermon preached at a visitation in Cambridge : a brief vindication of Mr. Stephen Marshal.
London: printed for Tho. Cockerill, 1681
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I shall therefore now give the true state of the Questions, and then leave it to the judicious Reader to see, whether any one argument the Conformists use, conclude the Questions.
For the First about imposed Forms of Prayer, the question is this:
Quest. 1Whether the Lord Jesus hath given such power to any ordinary persons (Civil or Ecclesiastical) to compose and impose their Forms of Prayer upon his Ministers in the Gospel-church, whom he hath sufficiently qualified for his work, unto which he hath called them; so that in their ministration and worshipping of God by prayer, his Ministers must be tied up to those very Forms and Syllables, and not vary from them?
Quest. 1Whether the Lord Jesus hath given such power to any ordinary persons (Civil or Ecclesiastical) to compise and impose their Forms of Prayer upon his Ministers in the Gospel-church, whom he hath sufficiently qualified for his work, unto which he hath called them; so that in their ministration and worshipping of God by prayer, his Ministers must be tyed up to those very Forms and Syllables, and not vary from them?
- 1The Question about Forms Prayer stated.